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  • November 05, 2021 05 Nov'21

    Digital secretary calls for permanent online safety committee

    Digital secretary commits to establishing ongoing oversight of the Online Safety Bill and its implementation, and suggests the grace period on criminal liability for tech company execs should be shortened from two years to a maximum of six months ...

  • November 03, 2021 03 Nov'21

    Facebook self-imposes facial recognition moratorium

    Facebook and Meta have committed to halting their use of facial recognition technology and deleting the biometric data of more than a billion people by the end of 2021, but will retain the underlying algorithms and software for potential use in ...

  • November 02, 2021 02 Nov'21

    Electronic waste excluded from COP26 agenda

    Data sanitation industry group calls on UK government to add electronic waste to the climate summit’s agenda

  • November 01, 2021 01 Nov'21

    MPs and Lords grill Facebook over online safety efforts

    Facebook answers British lawmakers’ questions about the social media giant’s efforts to ensure the safety of its users, as part of legislative security of the government's proposed online safety bill

  • October 29, 2021 29 Oct'21

    Facebook rebrands to Meta amid continuing controversies

    Facebook has changed its corporate name to Meta to support its work on the next generation of “social technologies”, but concerns around trust and privacy persist

  • October 20, 2021 20 Oct'21

    LightBasin hackers breach 13 telcos in two years

    Hackers have obtained an undisclosed volume of subscriber information and call metadata in a sustained campaign against telecommunications firms