Tue 15 February 2022: On Tuesday, the European Union’s data protection watchdog urged for the controversial spyware tool Pegasus, produced by the Israeli-based NSO Group, to be banned. The EDPS said use of Pegasus might lead to an “unprecedented level of intrusiveness, able to interfere with the most intimate aspects of our daily lives.” Israel […]
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Tue 15 February 2022: The state of Texas filed a lawsuit against Facebook’s parent corporation Meta on Monday, alleging that its facial recognition system collected people’ biometric data without their consent. According to Attorney General Ken Paxton, Facebook acquired biometric information from images and videos without the users’ knowledge, calling it an example of “big […]
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Tue 15 February 2022: The next instalment of the Assassin’s Creed (AC) video game franchise will be set in the Iraqi capital Baghdad according to insider sources cited in a report last week by Bloomberg. The developers behind the hugely successful series, Ubisoft, are currently working on the new game, which was originally planned to be […]
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Mon 14 February 2022: Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) have been seized by UK tax authorities as part of an investigation into suspected VAT fraud involving 250 purported bogus companies. As the investigation into the crime began, the perpetrators were reportedly attempting millions of dollars in attempted fraud. The crooks allegedly used phony names to conceal their […]
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Mon 14 February 2022: Some 91 per cent of Israelis who have been the victim of cybercrimes have not reported the matter to the police, in what the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) said indicates the level of mistrust between people and the police. A new study by CBS released yesterday said that about […]
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Mon 14 February 2022: India banned 54 Chinese apps that pose threat to the country’s security, the ministry of electronics and information technology said on Monday. “These 54 apps allegedly obtain various critical permissions and collects sensitive user data. These collected real-time data are being misused and transmitted to servers located in hostile country,” the […]
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Sat 12 February 2022: NASA is well-known for releasing stunning photographs and films from orbit. This time, the space agency stunned the internet by sharing a video of a “pepperoni” storm raging above Jupiter. The video is of an infrared view of Jupiter’s north pole. “The movie utilises imagery derived from data collected by the […]
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Thu 10 February 2022: In response to the country’s rapid acceptance of various digital payments, Kenya’s central bank announced on Thursday that it is looking into the idea of introducing a central bank digital currency (CBDC). The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) said in a statement issued in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, that there has been […]
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Thu 10 February 2022: SpaceX, the Elon Musk-owned commercial space company, said 40 of the 49 satellites it launched on February 3 “will reenter or already have reentered” Earth’s atmosphere due to the storm. Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk’s ambitious Starlink project suffered a massive hit this week when its almost 40 satellites were damaged […]
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Wed 09 February 2022: According to local Russian media reports, Russia may become the latest government to recognize and regulate cryptocurrencies. “The government and the Bank of Russia have agreed on a future regime for the circulation of cryptocurrencies in Russia. Before February 18, they will prepare a draft law on the circulation of digital […]
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