https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Denmark in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Plastic packets, cigarette butts and other litter are still causing a mess in nature areas in Denmark. https://www.thelocal.dk/20200127/denmarks-plastic-littering-mapped-out-in-world-first-project Mon, 27 Jan 2020 16:02:38 +0100 denmarks-plastic-littering-mapped-out-in-world-first-project Although as many as one in six people in Denmark has limited their use of Facebook and other social media due to concerns about data use, the proportion has almost halved since 2015. https://www.thelocal.dk/20191014/danes-grow-less-concerned-about-handing-over-data-to-facebook Mon, 14 Oct 2019 17:28:34 +0200 danes-grow-less-concerned-about-handing-over-data-to-facebook The use of mobile phone location data to solve crimes has come under scrutiny in Denmark after a glitch that has thrown thousands of cases into question and led to the release of more than 30 detainees. https://www.thelocal.dk/20190911/danish-justice-system-rocked-by-flawed-phone-location-evidence Wed, 11 Sep 2019 11:12:12 +0200 danish-justice-system-rocked-by-flawed-phone-location-evidence An error in a programme used by police to register telephone records may have resulted in incorrect convictions or hindered investigations. https://www.thelocal.dk/20190618/danish-police-data-error-may-have-caused-wrong-convictions Tue, 18 Jun 2019 14:23:43 +0200 danish-police-data-error-may-have-caused-wrong-convictions Confidential data on 20,000 residents in Gladsaxe, a municipality in central Zealand, were saved locally on a computer stolen that was recently stolen from the town’s city hall. https://www.thelocal.dk/20181211/computer-with-data-on-20000-people-stolen-in-denmark Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:13:39 +0100 computer-with-data-on-20000-people-stolen-in-denmark US tech giant Google is to invest 4.5 billion kroner (just under $700 million) on a data centre at Taulov near Fredericia. https://www.thelocal.dk/20181120/google-to-invest-700-million-in-danish-data-centre Tue, 20 Nov 2018 14:51:31 +0100 google-to-invest-700-million-in-danish-data-centre Planned data centres in Denmark owned by Google, Facebook and Apple appear in conflict with government policy to improve sustainability. https://www.thelocal.dk/20181109/danish-data-centres-unlikely-to-make-use-of-use-surplus-power-report Fri, 09 Nov 2018 15:33:56 +0100 danish-data-centres-unlikely-to-make-use-of-use-surplus-power-report Minister for employment Troels Lund Poulsen has backed suggestions that an ethics council for the use of data could be established by the Danish state. https://www.thelocal.dk/20180411/denmark-considers-data-ethics-council-in-wake-of-facebook-scandal Wed, 11 Apr 2018 15:48:29 +0200 denmark-considers-data-ethics-council-in-wake-of-facebook-scandal Denmark’s police security service PET transferred an unknown amount of data to a secret database despite a law requiring its deletion, according to a report. https://www.thelocal.dk/20180403/danish-police-security-held-kept-deleted-data-in-secret-archive-report Tue, 03 Apr 2018 12:11:56 +0200 danish-police-security-held-kept-deleted-data-in-secret-archive-report Those pricey EU mobile phone roaming charges that frequently led to a ruined holiday are finally being scrapped from Thursday. Here's what you need to know about the change. https://www.thelocal.dk/20170615/eu-roaming-charges-finally-come-to-an-end-what-you-need-to-know-2 Thu, 15 Jun 2017 16:34:00 +0200 eu-roaming-charges-finally-come-to-an-end-what-you-need-to-know-2 Thanks to years of collecting traffic data from drivers' mobile devices, Aarhus municipality in Denmark can now see the effects on road traffic of construction projects, roadwork, traffic accidents and faulty traffic lights. https://www.thelocal.dk/20170418/danish-municipality-uses-drivers-bluetooth-to-solve-traffic-issues Tue, 18 Apr 2017 19:11:17 +0200 danish-municipality-uses-drivers-bluetooth-to-solve-traffic-issues If you lived in Denmark between 2010 and 2012, it’s almost certain that your personal identification number (CPR number) and health information ended up in the hands of a Chinese company. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160720/five-million-danish-id-numbers-sent-to-chinese-firm-by-mistake Wed, 20 Jul 2016 17:08:10 +0200 five-million-danish-id-numbers-sent-to-chinese-firm-by-mistake