Apple has announced that the company will activate its App Tracking Transparency feature in iOS early this spring. The feature will show a pop-up giving users a choice to share their data for advertising purposes. The new feature was announced late last year. Apple wants advertisers who collect ... Read more
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The European Commission has told Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Microsoft, to continue delivering monthly reports on efforts undertaken to tackle fake news, especially on the pandemic, for six more months. Social media and other extensive online platforms have come under fire in recent times for... Read more
3 years ago
The stock prices of several ailing companies have exploded in recent days due to Reddit users who saw a gap in the market. Amid the financial chaos, the value of cryptocurrencies like Dogecoin also saw a huge surge. After users of Reddit page r/wallstreetbets realised that more than 100 percent ... Read more
3 years ago
Applications that assist employees in working from home have taken off in the past year. Yet the effect of the corona pandemic was not visible in all applications. This is according to the Business at Work report from Okta. The credentials management company looked at the behaviour of its users ... Read more
3 years ago
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the burden on personal privacy increased considerably. To prevent the spread of the virus, people had to share personal information and became more dependent on digital communication. This emerged from a study conducted by Cisco among 4400 security experts in 25 dif... Read more
3 years ago
The Biden administration promises that it will do everything to safeguard the American telecom networks from 'untrusted vendors.' Some of them include Huawei, which the US has claimed is a threat to national security since before Biden became president. The announcement was made by the White Hou... Read more
3 years ago
As of Wednesday, 20 January 2021, Joe Biden is the new President of the United States. As Biden said in his inauguration speech, he has many problems to tackle. In this modern world, many of those problems are IT-related. What are the challenges facing Biden? The main issue facing Biden is the t... Read more
3 years ago
Personal data of Dutch citizens registered in the Municipal Health Service (GGD) corona systems were offered on various online platforms. The systems contain records of all Dutch citizens who have had a corona test taken. The data in question was stored in the CoronIT and HPzone Light systems. T... Read more
3 years ago
European Union lawmakers have invited leaders of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Alphabet to Brussels to discuss future legislation for major tech companies. The aim of the meeting is to discuss how to tackle problems related to competition and fake news. The EU is working on several laws in this ar... Read more
3 years ago
Gartner released its estimate for global IT spending in 2021. The predictions indicate the sector will grow by 6.2% over the course of this year and balance out the decline of 3.2% it saw in 2020 due to the pandemic. The research agency says that enterprises were forced to invest in 'mission-cri... Read more
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