Countries and companies are fighting at the expense of our data privacy

Data privacy issues are a hot topic in a world where we apparently don’t know who to trust anymore. A few weeks ago, we reported how the UK had secretly ordered Apple to provide blanket access to protected cloud backups around the world. This week, Apple decided to pull the plug on Advanced Data...

Senate Gives Nod To Controversial Cross-Border Data Access Bill

The United States Senate on Thursday approved a controversial cross-border data access act, dubbed the CLOUD Act, that was part of the overall omnibus government spending bill. Buried on page 2,201 of the government spending bill is the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act the CLOUD Act, a...