There is no denying the fact that the compulsory Qatari World Cup apps, Ehteraz, a Covid-19 tracker from the Qatari Ministry of Public Health, and Hayya from the Qatari Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy for the World Cup, will be collecting a lot of information on everyone attending. This …
M.P.s warned about the risk of being spied on
The House of Commons Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle has written to all M.P.s making them aware that the information they have on their mobile phones would be valuable to a “hostile state” and that they should take appropriate steps to protect that information. Hostile states are targeting you, Speaker warns …
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Why Big Tech automated moderation fails…
Robots spotted “intimate content” and banned Mary McIntyre from Twitter and robots handled the appeal processes upholding the ban. Now Mary has a choice – admit she broke the rules and shared “intimate content”, when she obviously has not, to get access to her account or, well there is no …
I cannot say I am surprised by this – it is just a rush for profit…
…and the customers are likely to be the ones paying for the corporate mistakes and shortcuts. One of our team has just been away on holiday and had to leave their new shiny electric SUV at home because of “charging stress” between their home and the holiday cottage 300 miles …
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The supply chain is complicated – which is why it is vulnerable to exploitation
Bruse Schneier has an interesting article out today, describing how a Russian company that produces code that is included in thousands of smartphone apps, both iOS and Android, masquerades as an US company. Russian Software Company Pretending to Be American – Schneier on Security There is no suggestion of wrong …
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