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Wont entertain Hong Kong user data requests, say Microsoft, Zoom joining Twitter, Facebook, Google

Won't entertain Hong Kong user data requests, say Microsoft, Zoom...

Police have stepped up requests on user data to pick up dissidents in the wake of the national security law being...

8 July 2020 4:10 PM IST

South Koreans reacted with disgust to the courts ruling disallowing the extradition of the convicted child porn site operator. One Twitter user said, South Korea must be the only country that lets child sex abusers go free. (Photo | AFP)

Court in S Korea rejects US extradition of man who traded in child...

He served just an 18-month sentence, and a judge ruled that he would not be extradited to the US where he could face...

6 July 2020 9:35 PM IST

Ubers ride sharing business has faced losses due to the restriction on movement and travel across the world but its food delivery arm is doing well, and is now expanding with the acquisition of Postmates. (Photo | AFP)

Uber expands its US food delivery business with purchase of startup...

Postmates, whose business delivering food, groceries and other goods doubled amid lockdown, was bought for $2.65...

6 July 2020 7:13 PM IST

Huawei has said it will pull out of partnerships with any hostile countries and focus on working with countries where they are welcome. (Photo | AP)

Restrictions put in place to limit Huawei's access to France's 5G...

While the Chinese company is not banned, operators using Huawei will be given only limited permits for 3-8 years.

6 July 2020 5:26 PM IST

The state has superseded internet exceptionalism and instead used it as a weapon. (Photo | Pixabay - Gerd Altmann)

Tech This Week | Banning TikTok is another nail on coffin of internet...

The action against Chinese Apps is not about data protection but is a political manoeuvre.

4 July 2020 10:44 PM IST

Tourists browse a gift store featuring US President Donald Trump campaign items in Keystone, South Dakota on July 2, 2020. Social media is virtually a Trump shop full of buyers. On Twitter, Donald Trumps 82.4 million followers dwarf Bidens 6.4 million. The president has spent years cultivating a ragtag digital army of meme makers and political influencers who retweet campaign messages hundreds of times daily. Trump is outspending Biden on Google and YouTube advertising by nearly 3 to 1. (Photo | AFP)

Donald Trump is way ahead of Joe Biden if this were a social media...

Trump's steady retweets of everyday users helps fans feel connected to him' while Biden remains traditional and promotes...

4 July 2020 5:02 PM IST

In this June 19, 2019 photo construction crews work on the replacement border wall on the boundary between the United States and Mexico near the Calexico Port of Entry. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which built the steel wall, plans to install 200 autonomous surveillance towers by 2022, after a two-year pilot project using four. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - Mani Albrecht of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Public Affairs)

Eye in the sky tower: AI will monitor US-Mexico border, tip off patrol...

Of the 2,000 mile border with Mexico, Trump's steel wall covers just 200 miles, and border patrol agents can't be...

3 July 2020 9:24 PM IST

Local police have been granted wider surveillance powers to monitor suspects, including wiretapping and accessing digital communications, without a judges approval. In this photo,

Hong Kongers worried about being targeted by national security law...

With mainland China enforcing the law, views such as wanting independence became outlawed overnight.

3 July 2020 8:41 PM IST

Zachary Greene wears a face mask while protesting in front of the Lifsey residence where the USF President Steven Currall lives on campus on July 2, 2020 in Tampa, Florida. Tampa Bay Students for Democratic Society protest at the University of South Florida demanding an increase in Black student enrollment, employ more Black faculty and staff, more financial aid, and make direct connections with the surrounding community. Black workers account for 3.8% of all U.S. Facebook employees and 1.5% of all U.S. technical workers at the company. Those numbers have barely budged over the past several years, a common pattern across large Silicon Valley firms. (Photo | AFP)

Black lives don't matter at Facebook, only on their posters, staffer...

This isn't the first criticism a Black employee has levelled at Facebook.

3 July 2020 6:22 PM IST

The moves come amid a rift in some parts of the United States on the need to wear masks, with some Americans rejecting the face coverings as government intrusion. (Photo | Pexels - Lucian Petronel)

With over 130,000 deaths in US, Facebook will advise use of face...

The social network said it would include alerts at the top of feeds on Facebook and Instagram, starting in the United...

3 July 2020 5:55 PM IST

Since the misinformation law came into force last year, several opposition figures and activists have been ordered to correct posts while Facebook has been forced to block pages on several occasions. (Photo | Flickr - Newtown Grafitti)

Ahead of polls, Singapore government uses misinformation law to rein...

Under the law, ministers can order social media sites to put warnings next to posts the government considers false and...

3 July 2020 5:10 PM IST

Googles $2.1 billion acquisition of the maker of smartwatches and fitness trackers was unveiled in November and rang alarm bells among global regulators over antitrust and privacy worries.

Google's purchase of Fitbit will stifle the competition, say consumer...

Regulators around the world... must therefore give it their utmost attention, they said, calling it a test case on...

2 July 2020 9:28 PM IST