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Irish court hears case challenging transatlantic data transfers

After Safe Harbor, Ireland's privacy watchdog wants the Court of Justice of the EU to outlaw another data transfer mechanism

Twitter fights back, again, against online trolls

Company adds features to try to nix abusive users and stop harassment

Emoji and hashtag creators scoff at 17th Century pretenders

How Facebook and Google are battling internet terrorism

Leading platform providers are exploring new ways to actively engage in counter-messaging, building on robust systems to flag and remove extremist content.

Harbinger of The Great Internet Wall arrives

President Trump’s executive order on immigration puts non-U.S. citizens’ data in jeopardy

Facebook tries to revamp password recovery by supplanting email

Facebook has released an open source password recovery protocol meant for use with third-party sites

German consumer groups sue WhatsApp over privacy policy changes

The Federation of German Consumer Organizations wants WhatsApp to stop passing users' contact lists to its parent company, Facebook

Tech leaders decry Trump’s Muslim ban

That online job candidate may be carrying a virus

Your employees may be job searching at work, too. How to keep corporate systems safe.

Tech world not immune to fake news