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To fight coronavirus misinformation, Facebook gives World Health Organization free ads
As dubious information pertaining to the coronavirus floods social media, Facebook Inc. says the World Health Organization is welcome to publish as many ads as it wants for free. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a post Tuesday that the company has been working on trying to get “credible and accurate information” out there about the disease, ...
Big tech benefiting from forced labor in China, according to report
A report published Monday by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute claims that a large number of global companies are benefiting from the forced labor of Uyghurs and other minorities. A total of 83 companies are listed in the report, and some of those names are Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Google LLC, Huawei Technologies ...
Cellphone carriers could be looking at $200 million fine for selling user location data
The Federal Communications Commission is preparing to fine four U.S. cellphone carriers a total of $200 million for selling user location data to third parties, Reuters reported today. People familiar with the matter said the companies that will be hit with the fine are Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Inc., Sprint Corp. and T-Mobile US Inc. In 2018, ...
Apple doubles down on free speech stance, reveals first India store at annual meeting
Apple Inc. received a fairly high level of support from its shareholders over the matter of free speech in China as the company met for its annual meeting today. The issue at hand was the fact that in 2017 Apple removed 634 virtual private networks from its Apple Store at the behest of the Chinese ...
Twitter could soon label tweets containing misleading information
Twitter Inc. is thinking about adding colored labels to content that contains lies and misinformation, according to a leaked demo obtained by NBC today. The company has confirmed that the demo is real, although the labelling of lies is in the testing process and Twitter isn’t sure when the feature will be rolled out. In ...
Google users in UK set to lose data protections after Brexit
Google LLC is moving its British users’ accounts away from European Union privacy regulators and into U.S. jurisdiction, according to a report by Reuters published Wednesday. Since the U.K. is longer part of the European Union, that means tens of millions of users are no longer protected by the stringent guidelines imposed by the E.U.’s ...
Blaming coronavirus, Apple says quarterly revenue will be lower than expected
Apple Inc. said Monday that its bottom line will very likely take a hit because of the spread of COVID-19, better known as the coronavirus. In a press release, the company said that it does not expect to meet its own revenue guidance for the second quarter, for two major reasons. The first one is iPhone ...
Researchers say US voting app flaw could let attackers change votes
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say a voting app used in four states in the U.S. has some serious security flaws, including a vulnerability that would allow an attacker to change someone’s vote. On Thursday, the researchers published a lengthy paper on the matter. The app in question, called Voatz, is said to ...
Fears mount that MWC might not go ahead after more big companies pull out
There are growing fears that the giant Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona in late February might be canceled after more companies just pulled out of the event on concerns about the coronavirus outbreak. Earlier this week, a slew of companies, including LG Electronics Co. Ltd. and ZTE Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson and ...
Amid staff tensions, Google’s HR chief steps down
Eileen Naughton, Google LLC’s head of human resources, will step down from her role at the company amid growing tensions between staff and management. Naughton had been with Google since 2006 and had spent the last four years working as vice president of people operations. Her position over the last two years surely was a ...