Thursday, June 18, 2020

UK abandons contact-tracing app for Apple and Google model

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The government has been forced to abandon a centralised coronavirus contact-tracing app after spending three months and millions of pound...

Police take too much data from victims' phones, says watchdog

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Police are extracting "excessive amounts of personal data" from the mobile phones of victims and witnesses during investigations ...

Pacific data cable not safe from China if Hong Kong included, says US

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The US government wants a high-capacity undersea data cable system proposed by Google and Facebook to bypass Hong Kong, citing potential na...

Children interrupting Zoom meetings could be the reboot corporate culture needed

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The other day I was in a Zoom meeting with colleagues I don't know that well. The tone was serious and formal when suddenly everything...

What is happening with the UK's contact-tracing app?

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The government has abandoned its efforts to build a centralised coronavirus contact-tracing app after nearly three months, announcing it wi...

Piloted in May, ditched in June: the failure of England's Covid-19 app

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Designed to be a key component of the test, track and trace programme to forge a way out of lockdown, the NHS Covid-19 app has been beset...

How Bank of America, Starbucks, Target, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and others quietly fund the police through private donations

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Protests over police violence and racism have amplified calls to re-examine police budgets in the United States, with several large compani...