Google’s plan to expand into China has drawn criticism from a former executive, who says the tech giant is not doing enough to implement a coherent human rights policy.
Foreign exchange company, Travelex is being held to a £4.6m ransom by hackers.
Sole practitioner George Gardiner from London firm Gardiner & Co. has challenged the Solicitor Regulation Authority (SRA) on its mandatory kitemark (“digital badge”) that all firms must display.
Google's partnership with Ascension, a major US hospital network, has been revealed by one of its team members.
British supermarket chain Morrisons has appealed its case to the Supreme Court to try and overturn a ruling that found the supermarket giant vicariously liable for a data breach, after an aggrieved employee released staff’s personal data online and to newspapers.
Technology Giant Google is to buy the health technology company Fitbit for $2.1 billion, raising concerns about the personal data of Fitbit’s 28 million users.
The UK data protection watchdog has called for legal guidance on the rise of live facial recognition and urged police to restrain their use of it.
Facebook and YouTube have recently affirmed that they will not change how they police political content on their platforms. In fact, both organisations have hinted at relaxing censorship by raising the threshold on what politicians can say before they will be found in violation of user codes.
In September 2019, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled the tech giant’s plans to develop its own draft legislation to regulate facial recognition technology. Amazon hopes to pitch this to lawmakers and for them to adopt its as many of its suggestions as possible.
Anthony Levandowski (a former engineer at Google) has been charged with 33 counts of attempted theft of trade secrets.