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A German privacy watchdog says it has opened an investigation into clothing retailer H&M amid evidence that the Swedish retailer had committed "Massive data protection breaches" by spying on its customer service representatives in Germany. Hamburg's data protection commissioner said in a statement Monday that a hard drive containing about 60 gigabytes of data revealed that superiors at the site in Nuremberg kept "Detailed and systematic" records about employees' health, from bladder weakness to cancer, and about their private lives, such as family disputes or holiday experiences.
$11 Million Fine for Authentication Shortcomings at Telecommunications ProviderOne of the largest fines to date for violating the EU's General Data Protection Regulation has been announced by...
$11 Million Fine for Authentication Shortcomings at Telecommunications ProviderOne of the largest fines to date for breaching the EU's General Data Protection Regulation has been announced by...
A man convicted of murder 37 years ago has the right to be forgotten and have his name removed from online search results, Germany's highest court ruled on Wednesday. The constitutional court in...
Automation tools manufacturer Pilz has been hit by a cyberattack that took down almost its entire infrastructure. Pilz is a major automation technology supplier based in Ostfildern, Germany. It...
Germany released draft security guidelines on Tuesday for next generation wireless networks that stopped short of banning Huawei, as the U.S. warned again it would reconsider intelligence sharing...
Haben sie nicht von dem Streisand-Effekt gehört? Malware authors behind the Finfisher spyware suite, well beloved by dictators, have sent legal threats intended to silence a German news blog that...
Look, it's CB3ROB – remember them? Cops have seized the physical premises and servers of the Dutch-German ISP that once hosted The Pirate Bay – after storming the hosting biz's ex-NATO bunker...
German authorities said Friday they'd arrested seven people and were investigating six more in connection with the raid of a Dark Web hosting operation that allegedly supported multiple child...
Germany-based car parts and defense solutions provider Rheinmetall announced on Thursday that production at its automotive plants in the United States, Brazil and Mexico was disrupted as a result...