Privacy Is Not Dead; It’s Powerful
By: IAPP Date: March 23, 2021 For decades, people have proclaimed a now-common refrain that “privacy is dead.” So get on with it, they say. You probably know some of the most famous of the post-privacy pundits. No doubt, the oft-quoted Scott McNealy, then CEO at Sun Microsystems, eternally quipped, “You have zero […]
Italians Urged To Boycott Amazon To Support Day Of Strikes
By: The Guardian March 22 2021 Italian consumers were urged by unions to refrain from buying from Amazon for the day on Monday as about 40,000 of the online shopping giant’s logistical workers held a national strike over working conditions. It is the first walkout in Italy to affect Amazon’s entire supply chain and involves warehouse and […]
New Effort To Clean Up Space Junk Reaches Orbit
By: NPR March 21, 2020 A demonstration mission to test an idea to clean up space debris launched Monday morning local time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Known as ELSA-d, the mission will exhibit technology that could help capture space junk, the millions of pieces of orbital debris that float above Earth. The more […]
Facebook Building a Version of Instagram For Children Under 13
By: Guardian March 19, 2021 Facebook is considering launching a version of its popular photo social media platform, Instagram, for children under the age of 13. BuzzFeed News first reported Facebook announced in an internal company post that the company would begin building a version of Instagram for people under the age of […]
Bonus Reforms ‘Biggest Shake-Up Of UK Corporate Governance In Years’
By: The Guardian March 18, 2021 The government plans to make it easier to claw back bonuses paid to executives of failed companies in what is being billed as the biggest shake-up of Britain’s corporate governance rules in decades, with ministers vowing to target negligent auditors and rogue directors. Part of a sweeping […]
Scientists Create Living Entities In The Lab That Closely Resemble Human Embryos
By: NPR March 17, 2021 For decades, science has been trying to unlock the mysteries of how a single cell becomes a fully formed human being and what goes wrong to cause genetic diseases, miscarriages and infertility. Now, scientists have created living entities in their labs that resemble human embryos; the results of […]
China’s Tech Giants Test Way Around Apple’s New Privacy Rules
By: Financial Times March 16, 2021 Some of China’s biggest technology companies, including ByteDance and Tencent, are testing a tool to bypass Apple’s new privacy rules and continue tracking iPhone users without their consent to serve them targeted mobile advertisements. Apple is expected in the coming weeks to roll out changes it announced […]
Biden Administration Convenes Government, Private Sector Groups to Respond to Microsoft Vulnerabilities
By: The Hill March 17, 2021 White House officials said Wednesday that the Biden administration has formally stood up a task force of government and private sector groups as it works to investigate and respond to the recently uncovered cyber espionage incident involving a Microsoft email application. Press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed in a statement […]
MEPs Back Law to Hold Firms to Account for Environment and Human Rights Abuses
By: The Guardian March 10, 2021 Big majority in EU parliament vote for corporate due diligence along entire supply chains, which will include UK businesses The EU took a step closer to holding companies to account for environmental damage and human rights abuses committed by their subsidiaries and suppliers overseas, with a vote […]