7th Newsletter -> 19 - 25 August 2016

France and Germany wish to access private Internet messages

National security agencies of France and Germany held a joint press conference at which they urged the European Union’s executive body to propose new rules which would allow for the national security agencies to obtain decrypted private communication from the Internet messaging service providers. French and German intelligence services are having difficulties intercepting encrypted messages from the members of the Islamic State, who are increasingly using messaging services like WhatsApp, Apple’s iMessage, or Telegram app to discuss and plan their terrorist attacks. The mentioned apps use encryption that makes it almost impossible for investigators to access a suspect’s communications, even with a court order.

In response the director of Computer & Communications Industry Association (consisting of member such as Amazon, Facebook Inc., Alphabet Inc. ’s) Mr. Christian Borggreen warned that any move by the EU to undermine digital security would end up having the opposite effect. Installing software back doors and increasing government access would result in weakened security, which would ultimately lead to online systems becoming more vulnerable to all types of hacker attacks.

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MEP Marc Tarabella again warns of the use of personal data by the mobile games

Marc Tarabella, a Belgian Socialist MEP and a member of the European Parliament’s internal market and consumer protection committee, this week condemned the use of personal data by the highly popular Pokémon Go mobile game. He stated that the developer Niantic clearly consider tracking personal data of people a game and a source of research or revenue. Mr. Tarabella said the Pokémon Go application breaches EU law including the newly adopted General Data Protection Regulation. The app also stores cookies and trackers on users’ mobile devices, which might potentially constitute violation of the e-Privacy Directive. The MEP said he will file a request with the European Commission to launch an inquiry into the privacy practices of the game and to alert EU citizens to the dangers of the app.

MEP Marc Tarabella is already known for publicly targeting mobile application service providers for their use of personal data. Recently (in our 4th Newsletter) we wrote about how he openly criticised the dating app Tinder for supposedly breaching EU data protection rules.

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