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Europe's new data protection law: what will change?

Europe's new data protection law: what will change?

May 8th, 2018 The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the biggest overhaul of data privacy laws in over 20 years. The law will come into force...

First NASA lander to study Mars' interior launches

First NASA lander to study Mars' interior launches

May 5th, 2018 An Atlas 5 rocket soared into space early on Saturday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, carrying NASA's first robotic lander designed for exploring...

Twitter says glitch exposed 'substantial' number of users' passwords

Twitter says glitch exposed 'substantial' number of users' passwords

May 3rd, 2018 Twitter Inc urged its more than 330 million users to change their passwords after a glitch exposed some in plain text on its internal computer network. The...

Cambridge Analytica shutting down

Cambridge Analytica shutting down

May 2nd, 2018 Cambridge Analytica, the data firm embroiled in a controversy over its handling of Facebook Inc user data, and its British parent firm SCL Elections Ltd are...

Facebook's rise in profits despite controversy

Facebook's rise in profits despite controversy

April 26th, 2018 Facebook Inc shares rose on Wednesday after the social network reported a surprisingly strong 63 percent rise in profit and an increase in users, with no sign...

Taxi app expected to revolutionise cab service

Taxi app expected to revolutionise cab service

April 23rd, 2018 A new application, Taxify, which is being launched on Wednesday in Nicosia is expected to revolutionise the taxi sector in Cyprus. The app allows users to...

Britain to regulate young people's use of social media

Britain to regulate young people's use of social media

April 23rd, 2018 Britain's health minister Jeremy Hunt threatened to impose new regulations on social media firms unless they do more to protect young people using their...

Facebook to put 1.5 billion users out of reach of EU privacy law

Facebook to put 1.5 billion users out of reach of EU privacy law

April 19th, 2018 If a new European law restricting what companies can do with people's online data went into effect tomorrow, almost 1.9 billion Facebook Inc users around the...

Flatpack fear no more? Robot assembles IKEA chair frame

Flatpack fear no more? Robot assembles IKEA chair frame

April 19th, 2018 Robots in Singapore have completed a task many humans dread - assembling flat-packed Ikea furniture. Sifting through pages of instructions and a jumble of...

Facebook's admission it collects data on non-users as well, fuels privacy debate

Facebook's admission it collects data on non-users as well, fuels privacy debate

April 15th, 2018 Concern about Facebook Inc's respect for data privacy is widening to include the information it collects about non-users, after Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg...

Singapore to test facial recognition on lampposts, stoking privacy fears

Singapore to test facial recognition on lampposts, stoking privacy fears

April 13th, 2018 In the not too distant future, surveillance cameras sitting atop over 100,000 lampposts in Singapore could help authorities pick out and recognise faces in...

EU tells Facebook: Sorry simply is not enough

EU tells Facebook: Sorry simply is not enough

April 12th, 2018 European Union privacy watchdogs will look deeper into the harvesting of personal data from social networks for economic or political purposes following the...

Zuckerberg resists effort by U.S. senators to commit him to regulation

Zuckerberg resists effort by U.S. senators to commit him to regulation

April 11th, 2018 Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday navigated through the first of two U.S. congressional hearings without making any further promises to...

Zuckerberg set to apologise yet again

Zuckerberg set to apologise yet again

April 10th, 2018 Facebook Inc has often angered users by its handling of personal information. Almost as often, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has apologized. He did so...

Facebook says data leak hit 87m users, widening privacy scandal

Facebook says data leak hit 87m users, widening privacy scandal

April 4th, 2018 Facebook Inc said on Wednesday that the personal information of up to 87 million users may have been improperly shared with political consultancy Cambridge...

Facebook CEO stops short of extending European privacy globally

Facebook CEO stops short of extending European privacy globally

April 4th, 2018 Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday that he agreed "in spirit" with a strict new European Union law on data privacy but stopped short...

Facebook severs ties with data brokers in blow to targeted ads

Facebook severs ties with data brokers in blow to targeted ads

March 29th, 2018 Facebook Inc said yesterday Wednesday it would end its partnerships with several large data brokers who help advertisers target people on the social network, a...

Tech giant Facebook in new bother over app

Tech giant Facebook in new bother over app

March 28th, 2018 Three users of the Facebook Messenger app sued Facebook on Tuesday, saying the social network violated their privacy by collecting logs of their phone calls...

Facebook data scandal widens as Canadian company accused of helping target U.S. voters

Facebook data scandal widens as Canadian company accused of helping target U.S. voters

March 28th, 2018 A scandal engulfing Facebook over the use of its data by political consultants widened when a whistleblower said Canadian company AggregateIQ had developed a...

The art of predicting - a human vs machine battle?

The art of predicting - a human vs machine battle?

March 27th, 2018 Forecasting is a tricky business, but Nesta isn’t backing down from the human-versus-machine battle. Forecasting is a fool’s errand, so why we do fallible...

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