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- Melbourne professor quits after government pressure about reporting data breach https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/mar/08/melbourne-professor-quits-after-health-department-pressures-her-over-data-breach 36 comments
- Mysterious government spy cameras collecting data at post offices http://kdvr.com/2015/03/11/mysterious-spy-cameras-collecting-data-at-post-offices/ 77 comments
- India lodged average 86 rapes daily, 49 offences against women per hour in 2021: Government data https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-lodged-average-86-rapes-daily-49-offences-against-women-per-hour-in-2021-government-data/article65833488.ece 133 comments worldnews
- UK government refuses public review before launch of NHS data platform https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/20/nhs_data_platform_consultation/ 2 comments technology
- UK Government Backtracks on Unhosted Wallet Data Collection Proposal https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/06/20/uk-government-backtracks-on-unhosted-wallet-data-collection-proposal/ 7 comments cryptocurrency
- Japan to Ban TikTok For Allegedly Sharing Data With Chinese Government https://dgs.com.np/scienceandtech/japan-to-ban-tiktok-for-allegedly-sharing-data-with-chinese-government/ 1218 comments worldnews
- Governments and WHO changed COVID-19 policy based on suspect data from tiny US company https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/03/covid-19-surgisphere-who-world-health-organization-hydroxychloroquine 13 comments science
- Private data of 78 million people leaked in India. Leaked data used for voter profiling by government app. https://thewire.in/government/andhra-pradesh-stolen-aadhaar-data/ 8 comments worldnews
- Apple provided customers' data on Indian government requests https://www.abplive.in/gadgets/apple-provided-customers-data-on-indian-government-requests-883593/amp?__twitter_impression=true 9 comments india
- Chinese iCloud Users Warned The Government Could Access Their Data. Apple has agreed to store iCloud data in China, allowing country's authorities to bypass the US court system when seeking information on its users. https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2018/02/24/chinese-icloud-users-warned-the-government-could-access-their-data/#6037301620c4 216 comments worldnews
- Data protection to get Aadhaar type law: What Narendra Modi government is targetting http://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/data-protection-to-get-aadhaar-type-law-what-narendra-modi-government-is-targetting/849025/ 27 comments india
- Thousands of Job Applicants Citing Top Secret US Government Work Exposed in Amazon Server Data Breach https://gizmodo.com/thousands-of-job-applicants-citing-top-secret-us-govern-1798733354?ir=t 4 comments technology
- Government Departments Are Leaking Your Personal Data, and You Should Be Worried http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/government-departments-are-leaking-your-personal-data-and-you-should-be-worried-1672758?site=classic 21 comments india
- Obama presents NSA reforms with plan to end government storage of call data https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/17/obama-nsa-reforms-end-storage-americans-call-data 16 comments politics
- Government Notifies New Rules To Bar Public Sharing Of Aadhaar Data http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/government-notifies-new-rules-to-bar-public-sharing-of-aadhaar-data-1459306 2 comments india
- UK government 'most transparent' in the world; according to global rankings looking at public access to official data. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30883472 11 comments worldnews
- UK Government pushes emergency law to allow data snooping http://www.itpro.co.uk/it-legislation/22678/government-pushes-emergency-law-to-allow-data-snooping 644 comments technology
- Skype under investigation in Luxembourg over link to NSA - Microsoft-owned chat company could face criminal sanctions for covertly passing data to government agencies http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/11/skype-ten-microsoft-nsa 20 comments europe
- Australian Telco Telstra storing data on behalf of US government http://www.smh.com.au/business/telstra-storing-data-on-behalf-of-us-government-20130712-2puom.html 11 comments technology
- Why the Gujarat miracle matters - A data based comparison of the Bihar and Gujarat governance models http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-06-29/edit-page/40271283_1_narendra-modi-gujarat-modi-critics 3 comments india
- Lobbying totals by CISPA proponents | Open Government Data https://data.sunlightlabs.com/dataset/lobbying-totals-by-cispa-proponents/5brg-ruk9 4 comments technology
- Schneier: government, big data pose bigger 'Net threat than criminals http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/02/schneier-gov-big-data-pose-bigger-net-threat-than-criminals.ars 4 comments technology
- Google hands over WikiLeaks Volunteers private data to the U.S. government without a search warrant http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_hands_wikileaks_volunteers_gmail_data_to_us.php 3 comments reddit.com
- FBI: Russian hacking group "Energetic Bear" stole data after targeting local governments https://www.axios.com/russia-hacking-elections-local-governments-9b929246-d5e1-4149-b272-a2adad28c484.html 5 comments technology
- CIA Finds ‘No Evidence’ Chinese Government Has Accessed TikTok Data, Report Says https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2020/08/07/cia-finds-no-evidence-chinese-government-has-accessed-tiktok-data-report-says/#3d48129a4c25 13 comments worldnews
- Government Data Proves We Shouldn't Believe India Is 'Open Defecation Free' https://thewire.in/government/swachh-bharat-open-defecation-free-data 5 comments india
- Angela Merkel ready to buy stolen Swiss data on alleged tax evaders: The informant, who used to work at the Swiss arm of the British bank, HSBC, has offered to sell the data to the government for €2.5m (£2.2m) http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/feb/01/angela-merkel-swiss-data-tax-evaders 3 comments worldnews
- Union government, Election Commission’s RTI portals face ‘emergency maintenance’, data leaks https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/union-government-election-commissions-rti-portals-face-emergency-maintenance-data-leaks/article67927971.ece 2 comments india
- Denmark Central Government External Debt | 1980-2018 | Data (188 million Euro) https://tradingeconomics.com/denmark/external-debt 3 comments europe
- Signaling Post-Snowden Era, New iPhone Locks Out N.S.A.: The move raises a critical issue, the intelligence officials say: Who decides what kind of data the government can access? Until now, those decisions have largely been a matter for Congress http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/27/technology/iphone-locks-out-the-nsa-signaling-a-post-snowden-era-.html?smid=re-share 7 comments politics
- How far has this gone? Are we just anomalous data in the eyes of the government? http://www.chycho.com/?q=anomalies_prisons 4 comments politics
- Hackers stole personnel data and Social Security numbers for every federal employee, a government worker union said Thursday, saying that the cyber theft of U.S. employee information was more damaging than the Obama administration has acknowledged. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/u/us_government_hacked?site=ap&section=home&template=default&ctime=2015-06-11-15-58-33 3 comments politics
- Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg called for new global regulations governing the internet, recommending overarching rules on hateful and violent content, election integrity, privacy and data portability https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/zuckerberg-calls-for-global-internet-regulations-to-address-harmful-content-119033100053_1.html 3 comments worldnews
- According to a New York Times analysis of government and private-sector data, the number of calories consumed annually by the average US child declined 9 percent between 2004 and 2013. And yet, researchers from Duke and Wake Forest have found that trend has not improved the child-obesity situation. http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/04/childhood-obesity-crisis-not-getting-any-better 16 comments science
- The 'First Global Snapshot' Of The Drug War Used Government Data To Prove That It's An Abysmal Failure http://www.businessinsider.com/govenrment-data-proves-the-drug-war-fail-2013-10 62 comments worldnews
- The EFF, ACLU, EPIC, and more than a dozen other privacy and rights groups, are calling on the U.S. government to stop the "unprecedented lobbying campaign" over the proposed changes to EU data protection and privacy laws. http://www.zdnet.com/privacy-groups-call-on-u-s-government-to-stop-lobbying-against-eu-data-law-changes-7000010721/ 5 comments technology
- A Dutch politician proposed to give the government the permission to hack computers and mobile phones, tap their communication and collect and destroy data. The law also contains an obligation to decrypt your personal data. If the computers are located in another country, the law would still apply. http://www.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rijksoverheid.nl%2Fministeries%2Fvenj%2Fnieuws%2F2013%2F05%2F02%2Fopstelten-versterkt-aanpak-computercriminaliteit.html 13 comments privacy
- Top NSA official says telephone surveillance should have been disclosed: 'U.S. government should have publicized the existence of a program that vacuumed up in bulk Americans' telephone call data before its existence was leaked by Edward Snowden, the NSA's deputy director said.' http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-intelligence-nsa-iduskbn16t034 225 comments worldnews
- It’s Time to Throw Off Our Digital Chains | As data-mining companies and government decision-making edge ever closer, it is not just our digital privacy that’s at risk, but our very capacity to organize in solidarity. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/12/digital-privacy-data-surveillance-google-amazon-facebook 7 comments politics
- Facebook, Google and Microsoft want to show users just how much the federal government requests access to data. The actions are attempts to save face on the privacy front following reports of the PRISM program http://gigaom.com/2013/06/11/google-facebook-microsoft-seek-privacy-points-by-asking-permission-to-disclose-data-requests/ 3 comments technology