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EU concerned over Russia monitoring airline passengers

Transport ministers from 28 states of European Union expressed concerns over the Russian Transport Ministry’s demand to provide personal data of all European passengers flying to Russia directly or passing over without landing.

10:46 11.10.2013

Russian drug police to gain access to border-crossing database

Russian Drug Control Service will be granted access to unified transport security information system this fall, the service’s head Viktor Ivanov said on Friday.

11:54 13.09.2013

Russian senator seeks to probe Twitter’s compliance with personal data law

Russian senator Ruslan Gattarov claims Twitter’s privacy policies violate Russian and European personal data protection laws and seeks a probe into the affair.

13:39 29.08.2013

Google says Gmail messages not private

Google has made it official, casually acknowledging what many people already knew or at least suspected: emails sent through its free Gmail service will be “processed” with no guarantee of privacy.

12:21 15.08.2013

US lawmakers defeat amendment to limit phone spying

A legislation aimed at substantially curbing the federal government’s ability to collect information about Americans’ phone calls failed to pass the US House of Representatives on Wednesday, Washington Post reported.

10:05 25.07.2013

MP requests inspection of Google's compliance with personal data protection laws

Lawmaker Ruslan Gattarov, who heads the Federation Council's Information Policy Commission, believes that Google violates international and Russian law on personal data protection and has asked for this assumption to be checked.

16:13 16.07.2013

Snowden says Microsoft collaborates with NSA - report

US software giant Microsoft has closely cooperated with the US National Security Agency (NSA) by allowing secret services to bypass company’s own encryption codes and gain access particularly to Outlook and Skype among other programs, The Guardian reported citing documents from Edward Snowden.

09:56 12.07.2013

Putin signs personal privacy law

President Vladimir Putin has signed a law on privacy. The new legislation amends the Civil Code, limiting the proliferation of information on an individual's private life and banning the distribution of false information even if it is not defamatory.

15:55 03.07.2013

State Duma prohibits distributing 'neutral' and 'good' lies about citizens

The State Duma on Friday has adopted in the third reading amendments to the Civil Code restricting the distribution of information about a citizen's private life and prohibiting the distribution of so-called "neutral" and "good" lies that do not discredit a person.

18:16 21.06.2013

Apple admits to receiving government requests for user information

Apple reported that it has published its statistics regarding user data requests from the US secret services after similar moves by Microsoft and Facebook.

13:41 17.06.2013

Russian officials, media representatives agree on more liberal media laws

Representatives of the Russian mass media have convinced officials and State Duma lawmakers - who met to discuss a set of strict new amendments to the Civil Code - to allow the media to publish personal information not otherwise categorized as "private".

12:04 20.05.2013

State Duma proposes restricted police access to banks

Law enforcement agencies would have to obtain a court warrant for access to bank account information, according to amendment recommended for inclusion prior to the second reading of a bill on the prevention of illegal financial transactions.

16:29 16.05.2013

Google Glass under fire with US business owners over privacy issues

A plethora of US business owners are taking a stand against hot new tech product Google Glass. The central issue is the concern that wearers of Google Glass can record their audio and visual surroundings in a manner far more conspicuous than by use of a smart phone or standard video recorder.

11:34 13.05.2013

German Constitutional Court rules anti-terror database legitimate

The Federal Constitutional Court in Germany has stated that the Antiterrordatei nationwide anti-terror file database is legitimate, but has ordered lawmakers to make changes to the system.

16:03 24.04.2013

Tax authorities given limited access to individual bank account updates

Government officials have reconciled a proposal at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev last week to give the tax authorities access to individual bank account numbers but not to all transaction details.

14:19 22.03.2013

Microsoft discloses law enforcement requests for user data

US tech giant Microsoft disclosed Thursday that it and its main video chat service Skype received more than 75,000 requests last year from government law enforcement agencies in the United States and four other countries to provide customer user data.

09:03 22.03.2013

Sberbank cleared of privacy violation charges

The 13th Commercial Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court's ruling on a 20,000 rubles ($650) fine the consumer rights authority imposed on state-controlled Sberbank for violating bank privacy regulations.

15:41 18.03.2013

Google to be probed over alleged privacy breach

The Federal Antimonopoly Service will hold an inspection to determine if Google observes fair competition law and correspondence privacy, the Kommersant daily reported on Tuesday.

18:21 12.03.2013

Pope Benedict XVI pardons former butler who stole his documents

Pope Benedict XVI has pardoned his former butler Paolo Gabriele, sentenced by a Vatican court to 1.5 years for stealing documents from the Pope's apartments.

10:28 24.12.2012

Facebook to pay users $10 each, charity nothing

Facebook has proposed revised settlement terms in the lawsuit over personal data use in Sponsored Stories advertising and has offered a total of $10 million in damages to the injured parties, according to documents filed by Facebook with the US District Court in San Francisco.

11:55 09.10.2012