German government plans to introduce legislation allowing phone and Internet records to be retained for up to 10 weeks.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3040184/Germany-allow-phone-data-retention-10-weeks.html
Big Brother Awards held in Germany, recognize companies and governmental organizations responsible for significant privacy abuses.
Edward Snowden will be hosted (via internet connection, in Russia) at Princeton University on May 2nd.
http://wws.princeton.edu/news-and-events/events/item/edward-snowden-conversation-bart-gellman
$750M lawsuit against Bell Canada for tracking of mobile internet users and targeted ads in violation of their privacy policy and the Telecommunications Act.
House Intelligence Committee last Thursday passed the Protecting Cyber Networks Act (PCNA), a near-mirror image of the cybersecurity data-sharing bill known as CISA that the Senate intelligence committee passed two weeks ago.
http://www.wired.com/2015/03/privacy-critics-go-0-2-congress-cybersecurity-bills/
Supreme Court holds that police officers can’t detain people in traffic stops for longer than is necessary to accomplish the purpose of their stop.
Article discussing attempts by John Deere to assert that tractors are not fully owned by the farmers who use them because the company retains ownership of the proprietary software within the tractors.
http://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/
Twitter testing a product which identifies and deletes troll accounts and the tweets they create.
http://gizmodo.com/twitter-is-testing-a-product-thatll-somehow-hunt-for-tr-1699197730