Twitter accounts outside of US now subject to EU data
protection rules
Twitter's revision to its privacy policy on 18 April 2015
will see account information for users outside of the US handled in
Dublin and subject to Irish privacy and data protection law. This
poses a challenge for the Irish Data Protection Commissioner whose
office has responsibility for some of the world's biggest
technology companies, recognised by the doubling of its budget this
year. Twitter's US users' account information remains under
U.S. law, handled by Twitter's head office in San
Francisco.
US lawmakers consider new bipartisan cyber bills
In the wake of several high profile data breaches involving some
of the US's major companies, the US is considering two new
pieces of legislation promoting cyber security with the The Data
Breach Notification and Punishing Cyber Criminals Act is before the
House this week. It emphasises the US' commitment to tackling
cyber crime by introducing
