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Did GCHQ illegally spy on you? Privacy International will help you find out

Feb16
by on February 16, 2015 at 1:48 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, European Declaration of Human Rights, GCHQ, Insider, Privacy International, UK

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Human rights group Privacy International has launched a way to allow anyone in the world to find out whether UK intelligence agency GCHQ illegally spied on them. The organization, along with Bytes for All, Liberty and Amnesty International, recently brought a case to the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT). The body ruled GCHQ had unlawfully obtained millions of private communications from the NSA. Privacy International’s new campaign is a direct result of that ruling. The platform will allow anyone in the world, not just British citizens, to ask GCHQ if their records were unlawfully shared by the NSA. To take part, you…

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Offline over the weekend? Read all the tech news you missed right here

Feb16
by on February 16, 2015 at 1:34 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Roundups

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With Monday now firmly underway, it’s time to accept that the weekend is over once again. But if you spent it out with friends, partying, indulging in your hobbies or maybe even just sitting on your sofa not moving a muscle, we’ve got all the news and features you missed while you weren’t paying attention. We’ve even put them into a nice, easily digestible bullet point list because we know you don’t have time to waste. All you have to do is make yourself a drink and put your phone on silent for 10 minutes while you catch up on…

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Marketing the TNW way #1: Heat maps

Feb16
by on February 16, 2015 at 12:33 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Investigations, Voice

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In this series of blog posts I’d love to give some small insights into how we approach marketing at The Next Web: Web analytics, SEO, CRO, etc.. In this first blog post I’ll focus on the toolkit that we use to analyze user engagement. With millions of pageviews (and growing) on a monthly basis on The Next Web, it’s becoming an increasing challenge to streamline the flow of all the data we available for marketing purposes. One of the challenges we came across is that we wanted to be able to generate heat maps for every page on The Next Web.…

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Chinese Bitcoin exchange Bter hacked, $1.75 million worth of cryptocurrency stolen

Feb16
by on February 16, 2015 at 8:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, bitcoin, cybersecurity, Insider

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Even as Bitcoin is starting to shake things up in the US, all is not well in the cryptocurrency world. China-based Bitcoin exchange Bter was hacked on Valentine’s Day and $1.75 million worth of Bitcoin was stolen. The company hasn’t revealed much about the breach, except that 7,170 BTC was taken from its cold (offline) wallet on February 14 via a single transaction (link) and that the platform is suspending operations until further notice. The company has offered a bounty of 720 BTC – about $170,000 – for the retrieval of the stolen currency. It says it will arrange withdrawals of…

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