Tag: data

US, Australia Police to Access Each Other’s Residents’ Messaging Data

The United States and Australia are tightening their crime fighting alliance, with a new landmark agreement that could see law enforcement agencies in both countries have easier access to the communications data of each other’s residents. It comes under the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act passed in 2018 requiring all U.S.-based cloud…


US, Australian Police to Access Each Other’s Residents’ Messaging Data

The United States and Australia are tightening their crime-fighting alliance, with a new landmark agreement that could see law enforcement agencies in both countries have easier access to the communications data of each other’s residents. The Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act, which was approved in 2018, requires all U.S.-based cloud service providers…


S&P 500, Nasdaq Slide on Hot Producer Prices Data as Fed Meet Looms

The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq fell on Tuesday after data showed producer prices increased more than expected in November and ahead of a potential decision on faster tapering from the U.S. Federal Reserve this week. The fast-spreading Omicron coronavirus variant also tamped down the mood after the S&P 500 index hit an all-time closing…


Germany: 8 Convicted Over Illegal Data Center in Bunker

BERLIN—A German court on Monday convicted eight people over their role in a data processing center installed at a former military bunker that hosted sites dealing in drugs and other illegal activities. The data center at the former bunker in Traben-Trarbach, a picturesque town on the Mosel River in western Germany, was raided and shut…


China Makes Basic Business Data National Security Risks

News Analysis The world’s understanding of China increasingly resembles the old Soviet Union joke: the authorities pretend they are paying wages, workers pretend they are working. China blocking basic business data threatens to shut them off from the world even more. For years, as China printed unreliable economic data, changed it whimsically, or censored it…


Italy’s Antitrust Regulator Fines Google, Apple Over Data Use

ROME—Italy’s antitrust regulator has fined Alphabet’s Google and iPhone maker Apple 10 million euros ($11.2 million) each for “aggressive practices” linked to the commercial use of user data. The authority said in statement the two tech groups did not provide “clear and immediate information” on how they collect and use the data of those who…


Fed Terminates 2016 Enforcement Action Against Goldman Sachs for Confidential Data Misuse

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Federal Reserve announced Tuesday it had terminated a 2016 enforcement action against Goldman Sachs, which had been imposed over misuse of confidential data. The consent order, directed alongside a $36.3 million fine, required the bank to submit a plan to strengthen policies, after a former employee illegally obtained documents from a friend at…


IBM, Amazon Partner to Extend Reach of Data Tools for Oil Companies

International Business Machines Corp. and Amazon.com Inc.’s Amazon Web Services said on Monday they would work together to extend the reach of a set of tools that oil companies use to manage disparate types of data. Amazon in 2018 worked with Royal Dutch Shell to create a technology to turn data from more than a…


Pennsylvania Department of Health Refuses to Provide Full COVID-19 Death Data

The Pennsylvania Department of Health refuses to share complete information about how it counted COVID-19 deaths for reports ordered by the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. The reports were ordered a year ago when the House unanimously approved a resolution in November 2020, requiring the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee (LBFC) to review the Department of…


No More China Tech: 57 Million Credit Card Machines Likely Compromised

News Analysis Americans and allies are too dependent on China tech, as demonstrated by recent revelations that our Chinese-manufactured credit card machines are sending data back to China for no good reason. The U.S. Treasury Department says that millions of Chinese point-of-sale (POS) devices, the credit card machines found at check-out counters, could be sending…