U.S. Senate introduced on Wednesday its latest bill directed at tech powerhouses Google and Apple to restrain their app stores’ influence on the market. The “Open App Market Act,” initiated and sponsored by senators Richard Blumenthal, Amy Klobuchar, and Marsha Blackburn would play a restrictive role in some of the largest app marketplaces, which according […]
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Facebook suspended on Tuesday New York University research project’s accounts and prevented access to the social networking platform, successfully halting a study involving the platform’s target on political ads. Damian Collins, a British Conservative Party politician, implicated that Facebook is halting research over the Ad Observer tool that could expose the platform’s hidden agenda concerning […]
Apple unveiled plans to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse, drawing applause from child protection groups but raising concern among some security researchers that the system could be misused, including by governments looking to surveil their citizens. The tool designed to detected known images of child sexual abuse, called “neuralMatch,” will scan […]
Luxembourg National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD) penalized on July 16 e-commerce titan Amazon with a roaring $888 million fine over allegations of violating EU’s data protection laws. The decision came against Amazon Europe Core under the pretense that Amazon is processing customer personal data. The verdict is based on a 2018 complaint by French […]
Famous Beijing-based giant Didi denied any allegations of plans to go private in a bid to satisfy the Chinese government amidst latest regulations concerning users’ data security. After the Wall Street Journal released a report discussing the possibility of Didi going private, the ride-hailing app’s shares increased by approximately 50 percent in Thursday’s pre-market trade. The company has been targeted by Beijing regulators ever […]
Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc, recorded on Tuesday a rising profit in second quarter revenue, despite heated antitrust regulations and prosecutions, the search giant marked its highest mark so far of quarterly revenue. Amidst the latest antitrust cold war between Big Tech companies and Washington in the last quarter, Google and Alphabet Inc. tallied in […]
China’s industry ministry has announced a 6-month campaign to clean up what it says are serious problems with internet apps violating consumer rights, cyber security and “disturbing market order.” The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said in an online notice that, among other things, companies must fix pop-ups on apps that deceive and mislead […]
When a religious publication used smartphone app data to deduce the sexual orientation of a high-ranking Roman Catholic official, it exposed a problem that goes far beyond a debate over church doctrine and priestly celibacy. With few U.S. restrictions on what companies can do with the vast amount of data they collect from web page […]
Ericson reported on Tuesday a grow in its organic sales of eight percent of its market value as Geopolitical tensions grow between the Swedish company and the world’s second largest economy, following the company’s warning of its deteriorating market share in China. The telecoms vendor – one of Huawei’s biggest competitors – announced that both […]
Over the next five years, the UAE will witness a digital transformation to its economy as the country launched The National Program for Coders on Saturday. The initiative offers golden visas to 100,000 coders, as well as code training with tech giants. The UAE is going the extra mile to attract the best coders from around the globe, while offering them with the basis needed to develop innovative tech ideas. IT specialists and […]