GovernmentHuawei cutting back US sales efforts; rural subsidies blocked
Written by Sam Varghese
Chinese telecommunications companies Huawei and ZTE will not receive any subsidies from the Universal Service Fund that the US uses to subsidise equipment bought by… Supreme Court declares Microsoft email case moot
Written by Sam Varghese
Microsoft may finally have to hand over emails stored on a server in Ireland, after the US Supreme Court ended a four-year-old case between the… Russian bid to block Telegram leads to mass IP blocking
Written by Sam Varghese
Russia's efforts to block the messaging app Telegram, after the country's authorities imposed a ban on the app, are proving more difficult than first thought,… 
Two British businessmen have had contrasting outcomes in their bids to underline their right to be forgotten by Google, with one winning a case in… Greens call for GDPR to serve as model for privacy protection
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The Australian Greens have called on the Coalition Government to update privacy protections to stay in line with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation… 
New rules to restrict gambling advertising during live streamed sport are under consideration by the communications regulator, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, which has… Small US ISPs say subsidy block to Huawei, ZTE counter-productive
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The US Rural Wireless Association has told the Federal Communications Commission that blocking subsidies to Chinese telecommunications companies Huawei and ZTE would affect the deployment… ACMA seeks public input to new rules for NBN consumer migration
Written by Peter Dinham
The communications regulator, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, has embarked on public consultation on new rules it is considering imposing which would set new,… Australia to seek data access agreement with US: report
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Australia is expected to seek an agreement with the US in order to gain access to data located there when needed upon execution of a… Harmonising data protection laws a big task, says French official
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The chief data protection officer at a French cloud computing company says it is a pity that different countries and regions are coming up with… 
