India does away with its data protection bill in favour of a new bill coming sometime in the future

Big Tach did not like the Indian Personal Data Protection Bill – but when do they like laws that expand the citizens privacy and limits their profits – and after three years of work it is no more. However it was the 81 amendments to the bill that killed it off… …

European Commission bans EU formal cooperation with UK on online data issues

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When Boris Johnson’s UK government “got Brexit done”, a number of things were agreed upon as part of the Northern Ireland Protocol but British union leaders have been opposed to many of the planned checks of goods going from the rest of the UK into Northern Ireland.  As a result …

Big Tech and EU lobbying

Here is a weekend read for you – grab a beverage of your choice and see what “big tech sums of money” can buy you: I saw first-hand how the tech giants seduced the EU – and undermined democracy | Georg Riekeles | The Guardian