In response to a data breach that exposed the personal information of more than 500 million Facebook users, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta $275 million on Monday. The Irish authority, tasked with upholding EU privacy legislation, has fined Meta more than $945 million since last October. The DPC announced the fine in a statement, noting that between May 2018 and September... 

Representatives of Telegram provided the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) with access to users’ personal data in a number of cases related to child abuse and terrorism, Spiegel reported on Friday. According to the German newspaper, the data belong to suspected terrorists and child abusers. However, it is still difficult for German investigators to obtain information from representatives... 

Brazil’s Ministry of Justice said on Monday it fined U.S. tech giant Facebook Inc 6.6 million reais ($1.6 million) for improperly sharing user data. The ministry’s department of consumer protection said it had found that data from 443,000 Facebook users was improperly made available to developers of an App called “thisisyourdigitallife.” The data was being shared for “questionable”... 

Data from Mass Shooting Tracker, a source widely used by the media, reveals that 51% of mass shooters in 2019 were black, 29% were white, and 11% were Latino, contradicting the media narrative that white people are overrepresented in mass shootings. Investigative journalist Daniel Greenfield gathered the crucial data which confirms that mass shootings are not a “white man’s” problem. He points... 

Google is “directly engaged” with the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, Wikileaks’ Julian Assange stated during an international forum Tuesday. Speaking to the “New Era of Journalism: Farewell to Mainstream” symposium, hosted at Moscow’s Rossiya Segodnya International Multimedia Press Center, the Wikileaks founder warned of the tech giant’s close involvement with both Hillary... 

Telstra, Australia’s largest phone company, stored emails and phone calls to be handed over to US intelligence upon request, according to an agreement it signed in 2001 with the FBI and US Department of Justice. The copy of the 12-year-old agreement, which was posted online on Friday by news website Crikey, is in confirmation of this week’s earlier leak by Edward Snowden, revealing that large... 

Secretive and elite, the Bilderberg group, which unites some of the world’s most powerful people, has been meeting behind closed doors for decades. An investigative journalist Daniel Estulin has just revealed to the European Parliament all he claims to have discovered about the Bilderbergers, and expects the results of his findings to have the ‘effect of an atomic bomb’.  Read More »