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Data protection: Europe might be getting it righter

European data protection law is at last changing, but not just yet, and we’re not sure how.

April 15, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

European VAT changes: too little, too late

The deadlines which the European Commission has set itself to fix the broken VAT system are all maƱana and make-believe

April 11, 2016 General, Life, Technology

The Steam Christmas breach: more details and a call to action

It turns out that Steam’s leak of personal data was very large, did contain sensitive personal information, and was the result of a denial of service attack. Has it been reported, though?

December 31, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Unexpected Christmas presents: how Steam served the wrong user data

A single point of failure which discarded all privacy protection is hardly an example of good design.

December 27, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Rhetoric of the impossible: Paris and privacy

Rather than blathering on about surveillance, our politicians had better start preparing their excuses.

November 19, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Cadmium blues 3: outcome and analysis

The EU may have abandoned plans to ban cadmium from artists paints, but where are we now?

November 3, 2015 General, Painting

No Safe Harbor: how one court ruling has blown data protection apart

Will Europe now force the US to swallow its data protection laws? Look to Dickens for his opinion.

October 7, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Open source Europe? The EU copyright report

The European Union recognises the need to update its copyright legislation. But are current proposals heading in the right direction?

March 27, 2015 General, Language, Life, Painting, Technology

How the EU is strangling small businesses

Over the next couple of years, the EU is set to shut down as many as 100,000 small businesses across Europe.

February 17, 2015 General, Life, Technology

Cadmium blues 2 – proposals

So how should we respond to proposed European legislation to limit artists’ materials containing environmentally harmful substances, like […]

January 30, 2015 Painting

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