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Interesting news articles related to privacy, in English and Dutch.

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I’ll never bring my phone on an international flight again. Neither should you.

A few months ago I wrote about how you can encrypt your entire life in less than an hour. Well, all the security in the world can’t save…

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WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages

Privacy campaigners criticise WhatsApp vulnerability as a ‘huge threat to freedom of speech’ and warn it could be exploited by government agencies

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Great. Now Even Your Headphones Can Spy on You

Israeli researchers show that even if you're paranoid enough to remove your computer's microphone, malware can convert your headphones into spy bugs.

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Facebook stops collecting WhatsApp user data in Europe after government pressure

Facebook has stopped collecting WhatsApp user data across Europe, the Financial Times reports, bowing to pressure from privacy watchdogs across the continent. The shift in policy means that...

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Het kabinet heeft vandaag ingestemd met de nieuwe wet op de inlichtingen- en veiligheidsdiensten die het mogelijk maakt om grote hoeveelheden internetverkeer via de kabel af te tappen. Volgens het kabinet is de wet nodig om de diensten hun taken goed te kunnen laten uitvoeren.

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Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking

Google is the latest tech company to drop the longstanding wall between anonymous online ad tracking and user’s names.

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Facebook ordered to stop harvesting data on WhatsApp users in Germany

The move follows the latter’s shock announcement last month that it would start sharing user data with its parent company, Facebook, including users’ phone numbers and last seen time in the app. Stated uses for the data includes marketing/ad targeting.

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In een rapport dat als toets dient voor de voorgestelde Britse spionagewet, stelt de inspecteur van terreurwetgeving dat het op grote schaal onderscheppen van informatie in het verleden nuttig is geweest. Ook zouden er weinig alternatieven voor bestaan, wat interceptie noodzakelijk zou maken.

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Het Nederlandse Openbaar Ministerie wil dat er Europese regels komen waarmee het WhatsApp wil dwingen berichten te ontsleutelen van verdachten. Dat zegt het OM tegen de NOS. Momenteel zijn die regels er niet en WhatsApp zegt dat het berichten niet kan ontsleutelen.

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Frankrijk en Duitsland hebben dinsdag een gezamenlijk standpunt gepubliceerd waarin zij pleiten voor een wettelijke plicht om versleutelde chatberichten inzichtelijk te maken voor autoriteiten. De landen willen dat de EU onderzoek doet naar een dergelijke verplichting.

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Dit is het tweede deel van een reeks over personal privacy. In dit deel gaan we in op software waarmee veilig chatten mogelijk is, opnieuw met de nadruk op opensourcesoftware.

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US Customs wants to collect social media account names at the border

Your Twitter handle may soon be part of the US visa process. Yesterday, US Customs and Border Protection entered a new proposal into the federal register, suggesting a new field in which persons...

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Mark Zuckerberg Covers His Laptop Camera. You Should Consider It, Too.

A photo of Mr. Zuckerberg’s laptop camera covered in tape had curious observers wondering if it was paranoia or just good practice.

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Google is quietly recording everything you say. Here’s how to hear it

Google could have a record of everything you have said around it for years, and you can listen to it yourself. The company quietly records many of the conversations that people have around its products. The feature works as a way of letting people search with their voice, and storing those recordings presumably lets Google improve its language recognition tools as well as the results that it gives to people.

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Police are filing warrants for Android’s vast store of location data

In February 2015, a man with a painter’s mask and a gun walked into a Bank of America office in Ramona, California, and walked out with more than $3,000. Police tried to track down the bank robber,...