https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Germany's highest court on Friday said security services had too much unfettered access to people's online data and ordered legislation to be revised to set higher hurdles. https://www.thelocal.de/20200717/germanys-top-court-reins-in-state-access-to-online-data Fri, 17 Jul 2020 13:30:51 +0200 germanys-top-court-reins-in-state-access-to-online-data Since last year, Germans have been able to measure their mobile network connection through a broadband-measuring app created by Germany’s Federal Network Agency. Now, the first results of the mass experiment are in. https://www.thelocal.de/20191111/funklochrepublik Mon, 11 Nov 2019 16:02:37 +0100 funklochrepublik Millions of records belonging to patients worldwide, including X-Rays, mammograms and MRI scans, were long freely accessible online without basic security measures, German authorities said Tuesday after a media investigation. https://www.thelocal.de/20190917/german-probe-finds-millions-of-medical-records-freely-available-online Tue, 17 Sep 2019 18:50:42 +0200 german-probe-finds-millions-of-medical-records-freely-available-online Tech giant Microsoft said Wednesday it had detected hacker "attacks" ahead of European Parliament and national elections in the EU, in a warning to civil society groups, politicians and campaigns. https://www.thelocal.de/20190220/microsoft-warns-of-hacker-attacks-on-germany-eu-elections Wed, 20 Feb 2019 16:59:13 +0100 microsoft-warns-of-hacker-attacks-on-germany-eu-elections Facebook users should be asked for consent before data collected by the group's subsidiaries Whatsapp and Instagram and on third-party websites is combined with their social network account, Germany's competition authority said Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20190207/german-competition-watchdog-to-crack-down-on-facebook-data-gathering Thu, 07 Feb 2019 11:17:40 +0100 german-competition-watchdog-to-crack-down-on-facebook-data-gathering Police arrested a 20-year-old suspect in central Hesse Sunday connected to the December data breach of hundreds of politicians. https://www.thelocal.de/20190108/suspect-20-arrested-over-massive-german-politician-data-hack Tue, 08 Jan 2019 11:03:07 +0100 suspect-20-arrested-over-massive-german-politician-data-hack Germany is the latest country to demand answers from Facebook after it emerged data from 50 million users was used to inform targeted election campaigns. German Justice Minister Katharina Barley on Thursday called such methods "a danger to democracy." https://www.thelocal.de/20180322/german-justice-minister-demands-meeting-with-facebook-scandal-cambridge-analytica Thu, 22 Mar 2018 13:24:33 +0100 german-justice-minister-demands-meeting-with-facebook-scandal-cambridge-analytica There's little change in the 2015 list of new parents' favourite baby names, with some German classics holding on to the top spots. https://www.thelocal.de/20160331/sophie-and-maximilian-german-classics-top-baby-name-list Thu, 31 Mar 2016 16:45:22 +0200 sophie-and-maximilian-german-classics-top-baby-name-list European nations must share data among police and anti-terror forces, the German Police Union (DPolG) said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20160323/europes-security-services-must-share-data-to-fight-terror Wed, 23 Mar 2016 17:44:41 +0100 europes-security-services-must-share-data-to-fight-terror US tech giant Microsoft has put new data centres in Germany under the control of Deutsche Telekom, the companies said on Wednesday, in a move that will keep privacy-sensitive Germans' customer data in the country. https://www.thelocal.de/20151111/microsoft-agrees-to-store-customer-data-in-germany Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:09:07 +0100 microsoft-agrees-to-store-customer-data-in-germany One-fifth of Germany’s major companies has been attacked by hackers within the past three years, but companies are also not taking cyber security as seriously as they should, according to a study released on Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20150727/one-in-five-big-german-firms-has-been-hacked Mon, 27 Jul 2015 17:09:04 +0200 one-in-five-big-german-firms-has-been-hacked More than half of Germans want greater state control over websites, but about the same share are worried about surveillance of their own online activity, a survey on Tuesday revealed. https://www.thelocal.de/20131204/germans-want-tighter-internet-controls Wed, 04 Dec 2013 09:00:00 +0100 germans-want-tighter-internet-controls German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich is demanding that security services have access to data from autobahn toll collection services according to a media report on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20131106/friedrich-calls-for-autobahn-data Wed, 06 Nov 2013 09:52:00 +0100 friedrich-calls-for-autobahn-data Hackers have stolen the details of two million Vodafone customers in Germany, company bosses said on Thursday. These include bank account numbers and addresses. https://www.thelocal.de/20130912/51883 Thu, 12 Sep 2013 12:43:00 +0200 51883 Germany's three biggest email providers announced on Friday a partnership to bolster the security of messages sent between them in the wake of revelations of US online surveillance scandal. https://www.thelocal.de/20130810/51331 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 13:00:00 +0200 51331 Serious security flaws in a number of Vodafone internet routers could mean hackers could easily tap into customers' online data, Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20130806/51239 Tue, 06 Aug 2013 11:00:00 +0200 51239 Data thieves targeting customers at cash point machines caused €8 million worth of damage in the first six months of this year, according to figures out on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20130710/50775 Wed, 10 Jul 2013 12:40:00 +0200 50775 The sensitive medical data of thousands of patients has disappeared from a hospital in Baden Württemberg, southern Germany. Police are now investigating, although there are no obvious signs of theft. https://www.thelocal.de/20121012/45525 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:27:00 +0200 45525 Germany’s upper house of parliament has halted a new law affecting citizens' data privacy that caused a scandal earlier this year, when it was passed by the lower house in just 57 seconds. https://www.thelocal.de/20120921/45115 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:47:00 +0200 45115 A hacker attack which infiltrated Germany’s federal police computer system using Trojan programs and a system of routes via Russia last summer was due to a row about internet usage between a top cop and his daughter. https://www.thelocal.de/20120109/39999 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:00:00 +0100 39999