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Norwegian browser maker Opera has acquired Toronto-based VPN service provider SurfEasy. Which is a little odd, given that the former software company relies on Internet advertising revenue so heavily.
A parliamentary committee in the UK dropped a report today about the country’s intelligence agencies, publicly acknowledging that the spies maintain huge databases about “large numbers of people”.
A Dutch court has moved to scrap a national data retention law requiring telcos and ISPs to store customer metadata for police investigations because it would violate fundamental EU privacy rights.