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• Information commissioner: 'apps are failing to respect user privacy'

  10 Sep 2014: Most apps do not disclose what they do with users’ information, says ICO report, while many ‘leave users struggling to find basic privacy information’. By Alex Hern

• Police chiefs ordered to disclose more details of undercover infiltration

  9 Sep 2014: Police lose battle to keep secret information about the theft of dead children's identities

• Judge may hold Microsoft in contempt after refusal to hand over foreign data

  3 Sep 2014: Obama administration contends that company with operations in US must comply with warrants for data, even if stored abroad
  

• Vienna court orders Facebook response on ‘Facebook v Europe’ privacy case

  22 Aug 2014: Class-action lawsuit with 25,000 plaintiffs from across Europe approved by court in Vienna as first step in case. By Samuel Gibbs

• Better data could save lives and make sense of our world, says academic

  18 Aug 2014: There’s a world of opportunity in better capturing and reusing high quality data about the world around us, says leading expert Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

• Minister believed to be Malcolm Turnbull ‘gave demo to explain VPN’

  15 Aug 2014: David Leyonhjelm says unnamed minister told him those seeking mandatory data retention power don’t understand it

• Explainer: what is metadata? Should I worry about mandatory data retention?

  6 Aug 2014: Dan Nolan: What can metadata reveal about us? How easy is it to bypass metadata collection? And shouldn’t we be keeping an eye on terrorist websites?

• Metadata: telcos confused by conflicting messages from Abbott government

  6 Aug 2014: Tony Abbott insists companies will be asked to retain only what they already keep – contradicting earlier briefings

• You want my metadata, George Brandis? Get a warrant

  6 Aug 2014: Geordie Guy: The distinction between data and metadata is nothing more than a sales pitch for the Australian government’s dangerous plan to violate every citizen’s civil liberties

• Data retention proposal revealed to media before cabinet

  5 Aug 2014: Ministers understood to hold strongly differing views on retaining metadata as part of national security legislation

• Lords describe Right to be Forgotten as 'unworkable, unreasonable, and wrong'

  30 Jul 2014: The House of Lords has slammed the EU ruling establishing a ‘right to be forgotten’ as ‘wrong in principle’. By Alex Hern

• OKCupid: we experiment on users. Everyone does

  29 Jul 2014: Dating service’s co-founder claims it lied to users to test theory about compatibility. By Alex Hern

• Is the internet now just one big human experiment?

  29 Jul 2014: Dan Gillmor: It's not only Facebook treating us like lab rats. Dating sites can manipulate our emotions, too – and blame it on user testing. The possibilities are endlessly scary

• Google doesn't want you to limit its ability to follow you around the internet

  26 Jul 2014: Dan Gillmor: Behind our screens, tech companies are racing to extract a price for what we read and watch on the web: our personal information

• Privacy fears as Australian surveillance laws are dragged into the digital era

  25 Jul 2014: Special report: How will police and security services monitor our communications? Will they be allowed to mine metadata? Will it be regulated? Key questions as parliament reshapes outdated acts

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