Labour calls for halt to Google’s acquisition of Fitbit

By: Alex Hern Alex Hern Labour has written to the competition regulator calling for Google’s reported acquisition of Fitbit to be halted, at least until a wider inquiry into anticompetitive practices in the technology sector is completed. Google made an offer to purchase the fitness tracking company on Monday for an undisclosed price, according to […]

WhatsApp sues surveillance firm NSO for allegedly helping spies hack phones VentureBeat

By: Reuters October 29, 2019 WhatsApp sued Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group on Tuesday, accusing it of helping government spies break into the phones of roughly 1,400 users across four continents in a hacking spree whose targets included diplomats, political dissidents, journalists, and senior government officials. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in San […]