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Personal Data Held by Government Agencies Now Heavily Protected in Mexico
Lexology (registration) Personal data protection rights can be breached by Regulated Subjects only for reasons of national security, public order, safety, or public health and to protect third-party rights. The Law does not clarify the conditions for these exceptional cases … |
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Federal agencies warned of cyber-espionage coming from their landlords
FedScoop The State Department is leasing space for the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, which was acquired by a Chinese company in 2014. (Chris Breeze via Flickr, CC2.0) … |
The U.K.’s spy agencies breached the European Convention on Human Rights for years by secretly collecting almost everything about British citizens’ communications except their content, a U.K. court has ruled.
However, now that the U.K. government has admitted what it is doing, the collection is legal, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal ruled Monday.
It has yet to rule on the issue of proportionality, or whether the agencies’ actions were reasonable given the threat they sought to counter.
Responding to a June 2015 complaint by campaign group Privacy International, the tribunal said the secret intelligence agencies had breached the ECHR for years because of the way they gathered bulk communications data (BCD) and bulk personal data (BPD).
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'Strider' hackers create 'Eye of Sauron' malware to spy on international agencies
Daily Mail Remsec shares certain unusual coding similarities with another older piece of nation state-grade malware known as Flamer, or Flame. The malware used in these secretive attacks focuses on intelligence-gathering, which functions as a framework allowing … One bug to rule them all: 'State-supported' Project Sauron malware attacks world's top PCs We've Just Discovered Insane New Government-Made Malware Researchers crack open unusually advanced malware that hid for 5 years |