Year in tech: The stories making headlines in 2021 – BBC News
BBC tech review of 2021
Meta takes steps to protect user privacy
Meta (Facebook) has taken steps to remove companies and organisations from it’s platforms it accuses of “… targeting individuals including journalists and human rights activists.” Meta bans surveillance-for-hire firms for targeting users – BBC News More on this here: Facebook takes down accounts for seven “cyber-mercenary” firms – The Record …
UK Online Safety Bill
The Guardian has several articles discussing the forthcoming UK government online safety bill. TechScape: what to expect from the online safety bill | Technology | The Guardian TechScape: UK online safety bill could set tone for global social media regulation | Technology | The Guardian The bill will impact the …
So Facebook is down. So what!
However here is a [pretty] simple explanation why – with notes and software steps. Facebook Outage: Yes, its DNS (sort of). A super quick analysis of what is going on. (sans.edu) Bruce Schneier had this to say about the outage: Facebook Is Down – Schneier on Security
