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E.U. approves new data-transfer pact with U.S.

  The European Union has approved a new agreement on how consumer data must be transferred with the United States. This brings to an end  months of delay caused by fears about U.S. surveillance. The so-called Privacy Shield, the new commercial data-transfer pact,...

China sets new rules for Internet ads

Visualization of some  routes on the Internet. The Chinese government is imposing new regulations for online advertising that include a wide-range of practices from e-mail to videos. The increasingly authoritarian government is trying to impose more rigorous control...

Number of Mideast migrants into Germany falls sharply

Syrian migrants passing through Slovenia on their way to Germany last year. The German Interior Ministry reports that the number of migrants seeking asylum in Germany from the ravages of violence, corrupt and brutal dictatorships and poverty in the Muslim world fell...

Why won’t people pay for online privacy?

Samuel Gibbs looks into the question of why so many consumers say  that they care deeply about online privacy and yet are unwilling to pay for it. Hit this link to read his essay.

Kim regime calls U.S. sanctions ‘act of war’

The emblem of North Korea. North Korea has  predictably called U.S.  sanctions against North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and other senior  Kim regime officials for human-rights abuses a “declaration of war”. Pyongyang said the announcement of sanctions was a “hideous...

E.U. approves its first cybersecurity rules

Inside the European Parliament. The European Parliament has  approved  the first rules on cybersecurity for the European Union. This will force businesses to strengthen defenses against cyberattacks -- and to promptly report to regulators when they do happen. This...