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Content management
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June 24, 2020
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Jun'20
Political parties harvest personal data to create profiles on voters, most of it wrong
The UK’s three main political parties are collecting personal data on voters, but much of it is wrong and its use may fall foul of data protection laws
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June 19, 2020
19
Jun'20
Facebook allows US users to disable political ads
Users of the social media platform will soon be able to opt out of seeing politically motivated posts
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June 16, 2020
16
Jun'20
Norway’s contact-tracing app suspended over privacy concerns
Norway has been given until 23 June to justify the location tracking of citizens who download its contract-tracing app
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May 26, 2020
26
May'20
Max Schrems accuses Ireland of ‘Kafkaesque’ delay in Facebook GDPR investigation
Privacy campaigner Max Schrems has urged the European Commission to intervene after the Irish Data Protection Commission allegedly used ‘Kafkaesque’ tactics to delay investigations into Facebook’s compliance with GDPR
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May 07, 2020
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May'20
FBI search warrants reveal Trump aide’s messages to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
FBI search warrants reveal Trump campaigner Roger Stone sent private messages to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after the site published thousands of documents that damaged Hillary Clinton’s election campaign
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April 21, 2020
21
Apr'20
Data excess linked to climate change
IT departments are unwittingly contributing to climate change by storing too much data, much of which will never be used
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February 26, 2020
26
Feb'20
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange cannot be legally extradited for ‘political offences’, say lawyers
Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange argue that he has been charged with political offences and cannot be legally extradited to the US under the US-UK extradition treaty
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February 24, 2020
24
Feb'20
Assange extradition is a politically motivated ‘abuse of power’, court hears
US government’s attempt to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face espionage charges in the US is politically motivated and an abuse of process, court told
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February 19, 2020
19
Feb'20
Refinitiv uses Google Cloud to revolutionise delivery of huge datasets
Financial data giant is expanding delivery of its services in the cloud, removing the need for customers to use hard disks and trucks to transport large datasets onsite
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February 19, 2020
19
Feb'20
Dutch tech firm transforms real-life football through video game concept
Tech company that helped the Belgian football team in the last World Cup is changing the way footballers are scouted and teams are trained
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February 14, 2020
14
Feb'20
Smart use of data takes Dutch railways further
De Nederlandse Spoorwegen (Dutch Railways), ensures, among other things, that 1.2 million train passengers arrive at their destination every day. Through a subsidiary, it’s using data to improve both the customer experience and internal processes
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January 20, 2020
20
Jan'20
Russia’s VTB and Rostelecom focus on big data
Russian financial services and telecoms enterprises to create a platform that will allow them and other organisations to utilise big data technology
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December 30, 2019
30
Dec'19
Top 10 information management stories of 2019
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 information management stories of 2019
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December 11, 2019
11
Dec'19
Lloyd's of London secures £300m for digital transformation
Lloyd's of London has secured funding for a modernisation programme that will start next year
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December 09, 2019
09
Dec'19
Online fact-checkers warn of misinformation on unprecedented scale in 2019 election
The UK’s elections watchdog, the Electoral Commission, is calling for new powers to regulate online political advertising