After a turbulent year in 2022, the global tech sector will be hoping for calmer times in 2023 – but that might be wishful thinking. Elon Musk’s controversial ownership of Twitter remains unpredictable and uncertain, with a new chief executive supposedly to be parachuted in; the Online Safety Bill is still to complete its passage […]
Twitter’s subscription service that will allow users to pay to be verified on the platform is relaunching on Monday after a failed rollout last month. Twitter Blue will give users who sign up a blue tick badge, the ability to edit tweets and a range of other features in exchange for the eight dollar (£6.50) […]
Google has to delete search results about people in Europe if they can prove the information is clearly wrong, the European Union’s top court said. The European Court of Justice ruled search engines must “dereference information” if the person making the request can demonstrate the material is “manifestly inaccurate”. People in Europe have the right […]
Apple has said it will now offer full end-to-encryption for nearly all the data its users store in its global cloud-based storage system, which will make it more difficult for hackers, spies and law enforcement agencies to access sensitive user information. The world’s most valuable company has long placed customer security and privacy at a […]
Facebook’s dating platform is to introduce age verification tools to confirm that only adults are accessing the over-18 version of the app. Parent company Meta is to use age assurance technology from UK firm Yoti on Facebook Dating, which will ask users to upload an ID document or use Yoti’s facial age estimation technology, which […]
Martin Lewis has accused tech firms of being “not interested in funding the victims of scams” despite being “culpable parties” in fraudulent adverts appearing online. The consumer champion also accused the UK Government of “abrogating responsibility” in recent years because of delays in legislation to combat scam ads. Giving evidence to the Digital, Culture, Media […]
Tech giant Meta has been fined 265 million euro by Ireland’s data protection watchdog for breaching EU data privacy laws. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) issued the sanction against the Facebook parent company for failing to protect millions of Facebook users’ personal data, such as telephone numbers and email addresses, from being “scraped” and published […]
Google has agreed to a 391.5 million US dollar (£333 million) settlement with 40 states in connection with an investigation into how the company tracked users’ locations, state attorneys general announced. They called it the largest multi-state privacy settlement in US history. The investigation by the states, which officials said was spurred by a 2018 […]
More online child sexual abuse material is being blocked by tech firms than ever before, The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has said. The online safety group helps platforms find and take down web pages and addresses housing child abuse content. It says that its current watch list of URLs containing abuse imagery stands at 24,649 […]
An Australian health insurer’s customer data – including diagnoses and treatments – is being held for ransom by a cyber criminal in the nation’s second major privacy breach in a month, officials have said. Trade in Medibank shares has been halted on the Australian Securities Exchange since Wednesday when police were alerted that the company […]
