WhatsApp was warned over user data: Now it's sued for 'illegal' Facebook sharing
The row over WhatsApp sharing user data with its parent, Facebook, has just been rekindled in the Berlin courts.
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The row over WhatsApp sharing user data with its parent, Facebook, has just been rekindled in the Berlin courts.
With federal elections scheduled for late September in Germany, momentum is building behind using anti-botnet laws against automated social-media accounts that churn out disinformation.
With asylum seekers struggling to settle into life in Germany, the country's IT community has tried to create technological solutions to help them.
Germany wants to become global encryption leader -- but the reasons for its stance are complex.
The social network has met with the German justice minister who demanded it delete racist and xenophobic posts.
The country's SPD party is calling for computer science to be taught to all German schoolchildren.
Watching TV may still be the country's favourite leisure pursuit, but things are changing fast.
While a plan by the German government to fill in broadband not-spots has been welcomed, Deutsche Telekom's vectoring strategy hasn't won it any friends.
According to a new report, around two-thirds of end-of-life hardware in the European Union isn't ending up where it's meant to.
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Following a significant hack attack, the Bundestag's IT systems went dark for an upgrade.
Germany's top court for patent disputes agrees that Apple's 'swipe to unlock' feature on iOS devices should never have qualified for a patent.
Germany has fired the starter's gun on Europe's sell off of 700MHz spectrum, but will it be enough to persuade the continent's mobile users to switch to LTE?
A German data watchdog has told Facebook it has to let it users choose pseudonyms if they like.
The country's IT association has critcised the government's approach to supporting young IT companies, saying more legislation is urgently needed.
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