Mon 18 January 2021: A South Korean court has sentenced Samsung Electronics vice chairman Jay Y Lee to two-and-a-half years in prison, with implications for the direction of the technology giant and how Koreans view big business. With Monday’s verdict, Lee will be sidelined from key decision-making at Samsung Electronics as it strives to overtake […]
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Sat 16 January 2021: People can now download all the declassified files that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has on unidentified flying objects (UFOs). One can access these files from Black Vault, which is the largest privately run archive of declassified documents in the world. Over two million pages, released downloadable links of PDF documents […]
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Fri 15 January 2021: WhatsApp said on Friday that it won’t enforce the planned update to its data-sharing policy until May 15, weeks after news about the new terms created confusion among its users, exposed the Facebook app to a potential lawsuit, triggered a nationwide investigation and drove tens of millions of its loyal fans to […]
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Thu 14 January 2021: South Africa’s Information Regulator has announced that it met Facebook South Africa on Wednesday to discuss its revised WhatsApp privacy policy. WhatsApp’s revised private policy sparked a global outcry after the popular Facebook-owned messaging app alerted its 2 billion users to accept the new terms if they wanted to continue using […]
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Wed 13 January 2021: Message application Telegram has reached more than 500 million active users, recording 25 million new ones in the past 72 hours, according to founder Pavel Durov. The number of users exceeded 500 million during the first week of the new year, according to Durov. “Twenty-five million users have joined Telegram in […]
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Wed 13 January 2021: YouTube has joined the digital censorship caravan and suspended outgoing US President Donald Trump’s channel for at least a week, saying uploaded content violated its policies. “After review, and in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence, we removed new content uploaded to Donald J. Trump’s channel for violating […]
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Wed 13 January 2021: Turkey’s Personal Data Protection Board (KVKK) Tuesday announced it had officially launched a probe into WhatsApp, a day after the country’s competition watchdog announced an investigation into the messaging app and its owner Facebook over new usage terms that sparked privacy concerns. The board on Monday announced it would discuss WhatsApp’s […]
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Wed 13 January 2021: The Google News Initiative on Tuesday launched a global open fund to fight misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, worth up to $3 million. The “COVID-19 Vaccine Counter Misinformation Open Fund” aims to support journalistic efforts to effectively fact-check misinformation about the COVID-19 immunization process, the initiative belonging to Alphabet’s Google said in […]
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Tue 12 January 2021: Salaat First, another popular Muslim prayer app that calculates Muslim prayer times worldwide, reminding the faithful when to pray, has been accused of selling users’ location data to tech firms that have ties with the US military, Vice News reported on Monday that the location datasets showing the precise movements of its users […]
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Tue 12 January 2021: Twitter’s stock price was down as much as 12.3% on Monday after outgoing US President Donald Trump was permanently banned from the platform. After closing at $51.48 per share on Friday, the US-based social networking service saw its stock price open down at $47.16 a share on Monday, then fell to […]
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