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The European Commission wants to tighten the rules for the processing of personal data from electronic services such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Skype, Gmail, iMessage and Viber.

The current directive on the right to privacy concerns only traditional long-distance communications operators but the EC insists that it should include the providers of electronic services as well.

Apple Inc has removed the New York Times Co's news apps from its app store in China following a request from the Chinese authorities, the companies said separately on Jan. 5.

Apple removed both the English-language and Chinese-language apps from the iTunes store in China on Dec. 23, 2016, according to the New York Times, which first reported the action. 

The website WikiLeaks is promising to be even more active than last year, telling its Twitter followers they will be "blown away" by the new revelations.

A women calling for secularism was detained after participating in a speech protesting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attack on Istanbul's Reina nightclub that killed 39 people and wounded 65 others.
 

Tweets from the account of George Michael’s last boyfriend, Fadi Fawaz – who found the singer deceased in his bed – have alleged that Michael killed himself.

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We might be freezing in Greece, with temperatures below zero and snow all around the country, but sexy Brazilian Victoria Secret model Sara Sampaio put on her swimsuit (not all of it…) and flaunted her figure in Mexico. The hot 25-year-old Brazilian shared her topless pics on a surf board with her instagram fans on a beach with some friends.

BELGRADE - The CNN is spreading 'false information' by reporting that Russia closed the Anglo-American School of Moscow in retaliation to a new set of US sanctions, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

The tweet “RIP @britneyspears” was uploaded on the SONY Music’s Twitter account. The tweet was accompanied with a tearful emoticon. Abit later a second tweet “informed” the public that the 35 years old singer had been killed in a car accident.

BELGRADE - Recently, the social media page of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan published a photo showing Aleppo Twitter girl Bana Alabed and her family at a reception at the presidential palace in Ankara. However, social media users have uploaded evidence pointing to the fact that Bana's father is allegedly linked to terrorists.