Top IT stories this week: Your Gmail for sale, Karma Police, and cloud fails to save council any money
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7. Abandoning Safe Harbour could 'stop the operations of Facebook and Google in their tracks'
EU advocate general Yves Bot really set a cat among the pigeons when he described Safe Harbour, the agreement by which European citizens' data can be transferred to the US, as "no longer adequate" in the light of Snowden's revelations. If the European Court of Justice follows his lead and abandons the agreement, that will have huge implications for US internet companies.
6. GCHQ 'Karma Police' system to track everyone's internet browsing revealed
Remember that kid from school? Big Radiohead fan? Moved to Cheltenham? He's watching you right now.
5. 'Revealed: The breakdown of costs of Addenbrooke's Hospital's £200m Epic IT system
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was put into special measures after over-spending an average of £1.2m a week, in part due to problems with its new online patient-record system. Sooraj Shah dons gloves and mask to find out more.
Many people believe that moving workloads to AWS or Azure will save them money. It ain't necessarily so, says Rocco Labellarte, CIO of Maidenhead and Windsor Council.
"We anticipated that we would require fewer IT people and lower costs, but what we have found is that our costs have shifted from capital to revenue - so our revenue costs have gone up, and we need more staff," he says.
3. Fairphone 2 - a pre-production review of the new modular smartphone
A look at the repairable, upgradeable smartphone before it goes into production. Looks impressive, but is the price right?
2. RBS accused of 'falsifying' customer information in breach of Data Protection Act
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has been accused of breaching the Data Protection Act by editing customer emails and call transcripts, and altering how it presented its "central file" record of correspondence.
The claims were made by an RBS customer who believes his business failed due to nefarious activities by the bank, which also sought to repossess his home.
1. Google 'Customer Match' means your email address is now for sale to the highest bidder
Google's latest ruse to squeeze a few more drops out of users' data is a new tool called Customer Match which, it appears, will create lists of the email addresses of logged-in users who visit retail sites online. Access to these lists will be sold on to the retailer - and possibly the man down the pub too.
Silicon Valley's dodgiest geezers claim our number one spot this week.