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Google users in UK set to lose data protections after Brexit
Google LLC is moving its British users’ accounts away from European Union privacy regulators and into U.S. jurisdiction, according to a report by Reuters published Wednesday. Since the U.K. is longer part of the European Union, that means tens of millions of users are no longer protected by the stringent guidelines imposed by the E.U.’s ...
Blaming coronavirus, Apple says quarterly revenue will be lower than expected
Apple Inc. said Monday that its bottom line will very likely take a hit because of the spread of COVID-19, better known as the coronavirus. In a press release, the company said that it does not expect to meet its own revenue guidance for the second quarter, for two major reasons. The first one is iPhone ...
Researchers say US voting app flaw could let attackers change votes
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say a voting app used in four states in the U.S. has some serious security flaws, including a vulnerability that would allow an attacker to change someone’s vote. On Thursday, the researchers published a lengthy paper on the matter. The app in question, called Voatz, is said to ...
Fears mount that MWC might not go ahead after more big companies pull out
There are growing fears that the giant Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona in late February might be canceled after more companies just pulled out of the event on concerns about the coronavirus outbreak. Earlier this week, a slew of companies, including LG Electronics Co. Ltd. and ZTE Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson and ...
Amid staff tensions, Google’s HR chief steps down
Eileen Naughton, Google LLC’s head of human resources, will step down from her role at the company amid growing tensions between staff and management. Naughton had been with Google since 2006 and had spent the last four years working as vice president of people operations. Her position over the last two years surely was a ...
Silicon Valley startup Nuro first to get self-driving vehicle exemption from US
Autonomous vehicle delivery company Nuro Inc. has become the first company to be given an exemption from the federal government to operate its cars. The U.S. Department of Transportation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Thursday granted the Mountain View-based startup permission to test its second-generation vehicle, the R2. That car is designed to ...
Google demands startup Clearview AI stop scraping photos
Google LLC-owned YouTube Wednesday said it has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Clearview AI, telling the startup that it can no longer scrape videos from its platform. Clearview AI came under scrutiny this year after reports that it had been scraping videos of people on social media platforms and then adding faces to its database. Its ...
Twitter explains how it will crack down on deepfake content
Twitter Inc. announced Tuesday that it will weed out deceptive, doctored content, joining other social media behemoths that have recently said the same. The company said in blog post that for the past several months it has been collecting feedback from its users as well as researchers regarding the threat that “synthetic and manipulated media” ...
YouTube will crack down on misleading political content for 2020 elections
Google LLC’s video sharing giant YouTube said on Monday that it plans to weed out any unreliable content that appears on its platform as the 2020 elections get underway. The company said that though it already had policies in place to curtail the spread of misinformation, it has now introduced deceptive-practices policies that will better ...
EU issues guidelines for 5G infrastructure, but doesn’t mention curtailing Huawei
The European Union today released a set of guidelines for member states that address security risks related to the rollout of 5G infrastructure, with no mention of Chinese tech behemoth Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. On Tuesday, the Trump administration said it was “disappointed” with the news that the U.K. would go ahead with its deal ...