Facebook wins European court battle over right to fake names
Facebook’s lawyers have secured a victory over a German privacy group that wanted to force it to allow pseudonyms on the site.
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Moritz Jaeger
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Michael Filtz
From the day he brought home a modem and dialed in to a local BBS in 1991, Michael has been obsessed with technology and how it enables collaboration. He has a master's degree in journalism from UC Berkeley, and has worked in and around the technology start-up scenes in San Francisco and Berlin.
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4G in Europe: How far, how fast and how much is LTE in Germany?
As part of our series of articles examining the 4G LTE landscape across Europe, ZDNet takes a look at how Germany's fourth-generation services are measuring up.
Google Maps 150,000 supporters in German link tax fight
Google has notched up thousands of supporters in its ongoing copyright law battle in Germany, a battle that, should it lose, would see it forced to pay news sites for aggregating their content.
Audi's self-parking car: What's stopping the tech getting on our roads?
Audi recently demonstrated a car that can park itself without the need for a driver. But while the technology already exists to make autonomous cars a reality, it will be a long time before our vehicles will take over the driving.
Zuckerberg faces €20,000 fine over Facebook's anonymous accounts ban
Data protection authorities in one German state have threatened the fine if Facebook does not allow Germans to use the site without providing their real names.
Germany backs away from using a Trojan on its citizens - for now
Support for the use of a government-created Trojan to intercept the VoIP communications of suspected criminals appears to be on the wane - but it's far from dead.
Students turn to crowd-funding for Facebook privacy court case, raise €20,000
The Austrian student group Europe-v-Facebook wants to go to court to force Facebook to do more to protect the data privacy of its users. To finance the legal battle, the group is turning to crowdfunding.
Daimler wants to help workers relax on holiday - by deleting all their email
Daimler is known for its cars, but the company also wants to be known for its good work environment. Starting in 2013, employees can opt-in to have all email that arrives during their holiday deleted.
Google Street View: No prosecution in Germany
Prosecutors in Hamburg have decided not to press charges against Google over the collection of Wi-Fi data by its Street View cars.
Here's what happens when security watchdogs ignore their own advice
Germany's federal IT security agency regularly releases guidelines aimed at helping users keep their PCs safe. To show what happens when good security policies are ignored, the federal agency let two differently configured systems be attacked and documented the results.