All enterprises were already using cloud computing in one way or the other when the COVID-19 pandemic suddenly accelerated the migration of…
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Data Protection and Data Management Vendor Review of Veeam: Customer-Focused, Future Forward, Feet on the Ground
Last week I attended VeeamON 2019, in Miami, and I had the chance to get a better idea about the status of…
Read MoreHow IBM is Rethinking its Data Protection Line-Up
Following up on my take on the evolution of product and strategy of companies like Cohesity and NetApp, today I’d like to…
Read MoreFrom Data Protection to Data Management and Beyond
Just three weeks into 2019, Veeam announced a $500M funding round. The company is privately held, profitable and with a pretty solid…
Read MoreDataGravity Brings Behavior-Driven Data Management to Veeam Environments
DataGravity for Availability joins DataGravity for Virtualization in the DataGravity data management suite.…
Read MoreAlarms sound over changes to EU roaming, net neutrality and privacy rules
The European Parliament’s liberal-centrist bloc has warned over changes being made by EU countries to incoming telecoms legislation, saying they will severely…
Read MoreScammers defraud TalkTalk users after UK ISP suffers data breach
The personal details of a number of TalkTalk customers have been stolen. In some cases, the details have been used to scam…
Read MoreUpdated: Mozilla, Deutsche Telekom won’t release “privacy phone”
Update: Mozilla has told TechCrunch that the WSJ’s framing of this as a partnership around an actual phone was inaccurate. In other…
Read MoreEU privacy ruling should apply globally, says digital chief
One of the most interesting questions in European tech privacy circles right now is about territoriality and the so-called “right to be…
Read MoreGoogle advisory council: Right to delist should only apply in EU
To help it handle the EU ruling that forces it to delist certain results about people, Google assembled a team of expert…
Read MoreFacebook faces fight in Europe over new privacy policy
Last week Facebook rolled out a new privacy policy that allows the sharing of data between its various services, such as Instagram…
Read MoreGoogle to give all users clearer information about data use
Google has vowed to revise its privacy policy and account settings, in order to make it clearer to people what it does with…
Read MoreInternet of things needs global privacy push, says UK regulator
The U.K. telecommunications regulator Ofcom has called for international industry standards on privacy in the internet of things. On Tuesday the regulator…
Read MoreSmog computing: Why tech biz should learn from past regulations
Watching the President’s State of the Union and his calling upon Congress to enact legislation to better protect our personal information, I…
Read MoreHealthCare.gov gives trackers info on pregnancy, income and more
The U.S. government’s healthcare insurance sign-up site HealthCare.gov is quietly handing over deeply personal information to advertising and social networks, according to…
Read MoreGoogle could face €15M privacy fine in the Netherlands
Google has been threatened with yet another fine in Europe over its cavalier approach to EU privacy laws. However, while previous fines…
Read MoreGoogle’s cars return to German roads, but not for Street View
Yesterday, when I was walking down to my local Berlin food market at lunchtime, I saw a child pointing at a strange…
Read MoreSocial media terms and conditions are way too complex, say UK MPs
The British Parliament's Science and Technology Committee seized on Facebook's emotion-manipulation study as a perfect example of why people need to be more aware of how their personal data is used.…
Read MoreWhy the EU’s “right to be de-linked” should not go global
Google and other search engines should remove links to out-of-date or unwelcome personal information from all of their search results around the world – not just in specific European countries – when people in Europe ask for them to be taken down and there's no good reason not to, EU data protection officials have decided.…
Read MoreSamaritans charity continues to claim suicide-tweet app is legal, but won’t say how
The U.K. suicide prevention charity maintains that legal advisers have told it the controversial app is compliant with British data protection law -- but refuse to explain this position just yet, despite strong opposition from mental illness sufferers.…
Read MoreSalesforce opens first European data center in UK
Salesforce.com has taken the wraps off its first EU-sited data center in Slough, England, little more than a week after Amazon opened…
Read MoreWhat’s wrong with automatically scanning Twitter for suicidal tweets?
The Samaritans Radar Twitter app, launched this week by the U.K.'s main suicide prevention charity, has good intentions. However, it's an ethical and legal minefield.…
Read MoreAWS comes to Germany as Amazon unveils second EU region, out of Frankfurt
The move has big implications for latency and resilience, and of course data protection -- a particular concern for German businesses.…
Read MoreXiaomi addresses privacy concerns by moving international users’ data out of China
Apart from making Xiaomi a less risky option for non-Chinese customers, the shift also improves the latency of the company's services.…
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