Google is challenging a record European Union anti-trust fine that took aim at the Android operating system’s role in restricting mobile competition and consumer choice. The company said on Thursday that it filed the appeal against the 4.125 billion euro (£3.5 billion) penalty “because there are areas that require legal clarification from the European Court […]
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 […]
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 […]
Instagram has told users it is “looking into” an issue which has seen people told they are suspended from the platform. Users of the social media app around the world have reported being unable to access their profiles and instead are being shown a message saying their account has been suspended from the platform for […]
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 […]
The biggest cyber risk businesses face is from complacency, not hackers, the UK Information Commissioner has said as he urged firms to better protect themselves from cyber threats. John Edwards issued the warning as the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) handed down a fine of £4.4 million to Interserve Group, a Berkshire-based construction company for […]
The Online Safety Bill in its current form is a “mess” and needs a “total rewrite”, a leading digital human rights lawyer has said. Dr Susie Alegre has written a legal opinion piece warning that the proposed internet safety laws fail to address the root causes of online harm, such as the systems which recommend […]
Heat-detecting cameras can help crack passwords up to a minute after typing them, researchers have found, as they warn similar systems could be developed by criminals to break into computers and smartphones. Heat from people’s fingertips can be detected on recently-used keyboards and, when thermal images were combined with the help of artificial intelligence, informed […]
MI5’s website was down for part of Friday after a possible cyber attack. The security service’s public site was briefly unavailable for intermittent periods in the morning but is now back online – with the incident resolved. The cause of the problem is being looked at but was considered to be a minor outage, the […]
