In response to high demand TUVPN have launched a NEW VPN server in the UK!

We are offering Shared & Dedicated IP services on this new server.

You can access the server immediately using: london3.tuvpn.com 

Alternatively you can reinstall your OpenVPN Client and you will have it in your VPN Server menu. New servers will automatically appear in our L2TP and PPTP client menus.

The NEW London Server comes packed with the usual TUVPN Features to provide you with the best VPN experience on the Net!

Please note that P2P file transfers are not supported.

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We've done it…with help from a very nice customer! We have a NEW hosting provider in France. 

We are offering Shared & Dedicated IP services on this new server.

You can access the server immediately using: paris.tuvpn.com 

Alternatively you can reinstall your OpenVPN Client and you will have it in your VPN Server menu. New servers will automatically appear in our L2TP and PPTP client menus.

The Paris Server comes packed with the usual TUVPN Features to provide you with the best VPN experience on the Net!

Please note that P2P file transfers are not supported.

We are still researching options in Hong Kong and the Czech Republic, so stay tunned and keep voting!

We tried one hosting provider in Hong Kong, but were not satisfied that it provided the kind of service standards we demand. 

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It is reported that the European Union is going to introduce new data protection rules. Viviane Reding, European Union justice commissioner, claimed that the new legislation would oblige all the companies to inform their customers should a case of personal information theft  occur.

However, this is not the only innovation. According to Viviane Reding, it is also planned to adopt the “right to be forgotten”, that will allow users to delete sensitive information about them from websites, and the “accountability principle”, aimed to make cloud computing usage more protected.

Nowadays, protecting internet privacy concerns almost everybody, that’s why the news caused controversy among experts. Some of them welcome it. They consider that the new rules will return customers’ trust in businesses because they will be sure that their personal information is safe, but that they will also stimulate the companies to improve their customers’ privacy protection policies. Mike Smart, solutions director, EMEA at SafeNet says that the changes “will drive the natural market mechanisms towards improving security compliance and achieving better protection of customers’ interests.”

Nevertheless, a lot of people think that these rules need to be improved before adopting them; otherwise it would be hard to implement them. Paul Davis, leader of FireEye, predicts that the new rules will likely “increase the visibility of security breaches and cause further panic about the safety of online data.” 

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The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, made up of a representative from the data protection authority of each  EU Member State, released a document with recommendations about the protection of users’ privacy. The recommendations appeared soon after it had become clear that Google and Apple were storing location information on their customers’ devices.

The Article 29 group is responsible for data protection in each EU member state. Its recommendations can be accepted in some of the EU States or the whole European Union. Moreover, they can influence USA as well. But it is not compulsory to accept and follow their recomendations; the final decision depends on the local governments.

The report says that companies can store their customers’ private data only when they get  the users’ consent to do so. Also, people should be “continuously warned” of when and with what purposes their sensitive information is used. It can help  avoiding  “secret monitoring”. According to the recommendations, users should have an opportunity to remove their data, “without any negative consequences to the use of their device”.

The European Union is showing concerns about the protection of users’ internet privacy. On Tusday Viviane Reding, the European Justice Commissioner, claimed that she is going to insist on toughening the rules about breaches of privacy  in  online banking, video games, shopping and social media. “European citizens care deeply about protecting their privacy and data protection rights,” Viviane Reding said.

These concerns intensified after the much talked about cases of Sony PlayStation Network customers’ data theft and iPhone and iPad storage of location information about their users. Ms. Reding emphasized that the companies operating in the E.U. market should provide protection of their customers’ privacy and obey the E.U. rules that require notifying customers of security breaches “without undue delay.”

In comparison with the United States, national data protection authorities are much more powerful in the European Union. There are no organizations in the United States that take care of protecting internet privacy. The Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission, that have the opportunity to deal with this issue, work on the enforcement of fair business practices. But the US government is making some steps toward improving the situation. The development of the privacy bill of rights is a bright example of this.

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Yahoo is going to change its storage policy and keep information about its users’ search queries for 18 months. The new course of action will take effect in July this year. The company will inform its users about these changes during the next four to six weeks.

Just three years ago, Yahoo accepted a 90-day storage policy and was an ardent supporter of protecting internet privacy. Its data keeping period was the shortest one in comparison with other companies such as Google (stores data for nine months) and Microsoft (six months).

Anne Toth, Yahoo’s chief trust officer, explained why the company decided to change its policy: “Over the last three years, the way us and other companies offer services online, and the way consumers experience the Internet has changed dramatically. So, we will keep our log file data longer than we have been — offering consumers a more robust individualized experience — while we continue our innovation in the areas of transparency and choice to protect privacy.”

Specialists call for the company to abolish the changes and consider the new Yahoo policy to be a gross violation of people’s privacy, because search data could provide the company with sensitive information about the customers. They also think that Yahoo could use the stored data for mercenary ends. Moreover, the new company policy could contravene the current European Union data protection directive, that allows search engines to keep personal information for up to six months.

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The European Data Retention Directive has sparked serious concerns from privacy and IT security experts since it was approved in 2006. And now, the European Commission is going to review its data retention policy. It is conceded that the European Data Retention Directive does not always adequately protect privacy or personal data.

According to the Directive, member states have to store citizens' telecommunications data for up to 24 months. Police and security agencies have the right to request access to details such as IP address and times of every email, phone call and text message. Requests for the information are allowed via court orders.

The Commission has said that it will review its data retention strategy after considering their evaluation report, which was published a few days ago. The report says that data retention limits a person's right to privacy and that protection safeguards are required to prevent security breach.

The UK Open Rights Group called the Directive's evaluation a 'whitewash'. The European Digital Rights organization produced a spoof evaluation report claiming that the Directive was an "unprecedented violation of the fundamental rights of 500 million Europeans."

The report says that courts in Germany, Romania and the Czech Republic all rejected the Directive as 'unconstitutional'. The report finds that EU member countries interpret the data retention differently, making some national laws inconsistent with others.

The European Commission is going to harmonize the approach to data retention laws for EU members. Among the things to be considered are:

•    shortening the time to retain data for;
•    ensuring an independent authority to monitor all data requests;
•    limiting the number of authorities that can access the private data.

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Talking about privacy, Internet has long been a territory for open debates. EU and United States officials have started developing privacy regulations on how companies such as Facebook and Google should handle users' personal data. The European Commission pulls for protecting Internet privacy and for enforcing companies holding data to allow users to delete it from websites, ensuring their “right to be forgotten”.

Any company operating in the EU or any online system that is targeted at EU consumers must comply with EU rules. The European Commission endows national privacy watchdogs to control legal proceedings even outside Europe. It may cause some tension, as many companies amongst the biggest and most successful  have U.S. based servers, search engines and other data resources.

Though the basic understanding of the rules is similar accross the EU.and U.S. officials, their further implementation may be different. The main debates fall on two controversial points: EU officials determined that companies should get specific permission from users before they use their personal data, whilst  U.S. regulators are unclear on this matter. The right to be forgotten is also an ambiguous concept for U.S. regulators, as they stand for a broader definition of freedom of information and web anonymity.

Some huge companies support the official attempts to align the regulations, as it might help creating clearer and more common rules. And that might turn out to be the hardest task – privacy rules vary greatly even within the EU, and a multinational company might face difficulties trying to comply with all EU countries regulations.

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