Privacy issues
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The development of DeepSeek demonstrates why the UK must “go further and faster to remove barriers to innovation” in the AI sector, Downing Street has said. Asked whether the government would be open to using Chinese AI such as DeepSeek in Whitehall, the prime minister’s spokesman said: “We’ve got some of the strongest data protection…
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TikTok is facing a ban in the United States on Sunday after the country’s Supreme Court upheld a federal law to shut it down or force its sale. The US Supreme Court on Friday voted to unanimously uphold the federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday, unless it’s sold by its China-based parent company. The ruling…
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“Google it.” Even my technophobe grandma understands what that means, and almost everyone with experience of the internet has used the company’s services in some shape or form. Once a humble search engine, Google has morphed into one of the biggest companies in the world. “Don’t be evil” used to be part of its corporate…
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French regulators on Thursday fined Google and Facebook a total of more than 200 million euros ($226 million) for not making it as easy for people to opt out of online tracking as it is for them to accept it. The CNIL data privacy watchdog said its investigations found that while the U.S. online giants gave French…
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THE COVID-10 PANDEMIC HAS EXPOSED PREVIOUSLY NEGLECTED FLAWS IN GLOBAL Whistleblower Protection LAWS. The pivotal role of accountability and transparency in building and maintaining public trust in organizations is indisputable. How the Chinese government and World Health Organization (WHO) undermined public health at the initial and peak stage of COVID-19 pandemic, and consequential global spread…
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Point-of-sale (POS) malware is software specifically created to steal customer data, particularly from electronic payment cards like debit and credit cards and from POS machines in retail stores. POS malware does this by scraping the temporarily unencrypted card data from the POS’s memory (RAM), writing it to a text file, and then either sending it…
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Morocco has filed defamation claims against Amnesty International and a French NGO who claim its intelligence services used the Pegasus mobile phone spyware against dozens of French journalists, lawyers for the government said Thursday. Paris prosecutors opened their own inquiry this week into the claims by Amnesty and the French media nonprofit Forbidden Stories, revealed…
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France’s competition regulator on Tuesday slapped Google with a 500-million-euro ($593-million) fine for failing to negotiate “in good faith” with media companies over the use of their content under EU copyright rules. It is “the biggest ever fine” imposed by the Competition Authority for a company’s failure to adhere to one of its rulings, the…
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U.S. President Donald Trump is banning the use of the TikTok app, widely used by Americans particularly teenagers, because of China’s perceived role in the pandemic, which he routinely describes as the ‘China flu,’ or more recently the ‘China plague.’ How depriving millions of young Americans from using the TikTok app, putting 1,500 U.S.-based TikTok…
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Following India and the US, several Australian legislators are proposing to ban TikTok as they too fear the app was being used by the Chinese government to collect users’ data, reported the South China Morning Post. Recently, Liberal Senator Jim Molan said TikTok was being “used and abused” by the Chinese government. Labor Senator Jenny…
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The NFL is working with authorities to investigate the hacking of numerous social media accounts throughout the league. The official Twitter accounts of the league and a number of its teams were hacked over the past two days, the league said Tuesday. “On Monday, the NFL cybersecurity department became aware of a breach of a…
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U.N. experts have demanded an immediate investigation by U.S. and other authorities into allegations that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince was involved in a plot to hack the phone of Amazon boss and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos. The U.N. special rapporteurs, Agnes Callamard and David Kaye, said on Wednesday they had information pointing to the…
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In the aftermath of Prince Harry and wife’s decision to ignore media protocols, and the royal family’s disappointment at the embarrassing situation, Tom Bradby has called on everyone to support a meaningful peace deal.” The 52-year-old journalist who interviewed the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in 2019 warns that, in light of the royal couple’s…
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