https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Facebook has admitted that it is tracking political opinions posted by Spaniards to gather data about the upcoming election. https://www.thelocal.es/20151112/facebook-tracking-spaniards-political-views-leading-up-to-election Thu, 12 Nov 2015 15:41:42 +0100 facebook-tracking-spaniards-political-views-leading-up-to-election Google must delete sensitive information about people from its search results if asked to do so, the European Union announced on Tuesday, a ruling that comes after Spain's data protection agency took on the tech giant over privacy. https://www.thelocal.es/20140513/eu-backs-spain-over-right-to-be-forgotten Tue, 13 May 2014 15:07:00 +0200 eu-backs-spain-over-right-to-be-forgotten The internet search giant Google is not obliged to honour user requests to delete sensitive information from its searches, an advisor to Europe's highest court said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20130625/eu-court-upholds-google Tue, 25 Jun 2013 13:53:00 +0200 eu-court-upholds-google The world's first surgery using Google Glass, the tech giant's new 'wearable computer' in the form of glasses, will be carried out on Friday in Madrid with the help of experts in the USA. https://www.thelocal.es/20130621/spain-to-perform-worlds-first-google-glass-surgery Fri, 21 Jun 2013 13:31:00 +0200 spain-to-perform-worlds-first-google-glass-surgery Spain opened sanction proceedings against Google on Thursday for suspected serious breaches of data protection laws, acting just hours after France threatened the Internet giant with fines. https://www.thelocal.es/20130620/spain-takes-aim-at-google-over-privacy-breaches Thu, 20 Jun 2013 18:28:00 +0200 spain-takes-aim-at-google-over-privacy-breaches Spanish police on Wednesday arrested 26 people, including the local head of food and cosmetics giant Unilever, in a sprawling probe of a network suspected of dealing in secret data, an official said. https://www.thelocal.es/20130425/fat-cats-done-in-private-data-dealing-racket Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:10:00 +0200 fat-cats-done-in-private-data-dealing-racket