Facebook has been accused of breaking equality law in the way it handles job advertising. Campaign group Global Witness said it failed to prevent discriminatory targeting of ads and its algorithm was biased in choosing who would see them. In an experiment, almost all Facebook users shown adverts for mechanics were men, while ads for […]
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The president of game-studio Tripwire Interactive has stepped down after tweeting support for a controversial new abortion law in Texas. The Texas law bans abortions from as early as six weeks into pregnancy. John Gibson tweeted that he was “proud” of the legal outcome and was a “pro-life game developer”. Some of the studio’s partners […]
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Facebook is planning on limiting the amount of political content in people’s News Feeds. The social media giant has been testing changes to its algorithm in the US, Canada, Indonesia and Brazil over the last few months, and has now announced it is ready to expand the update to more countries. The change will mean […]
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The UK’s new Information Commissioner will be charged with a post-Brexit “shake up” of data rules, including getting rid of cookie pop-ups. John Edwards has been named the next head of data regulator the ICO. The government said Edwards, currently the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner, would “go beyond the regulator’s traditional role”. The job would […]
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All vaccinated people are getting a cardboard card that contains information about their vaccination status. Problem is, in some parts of the world there are concerns that these cards may be faked. Samsung has come up with a solution for this challenge. The tech company devices that support Samsung Pay can now (in the store) […]
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Apple censors references to Chinese politicians, dissidents and other topics in its engraving service, alleges a report. Citizen Lab said it had investigated filters set up for customers who wanted something engraved on a new iPhone, iPad or other Apple device. And Apple had a broad list of censored words, not just in mainland China […]
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The US federal agency in charge of road safety is opening an official investigation into Tesla’s “Self-driving” Autopilot system. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said it was acting following 11 Tesla crashes since 2018 involving emergency vehicles. In some cases, the Tesla vehicles “crashed directly into the vehicles of first responders”, it said. […]
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Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong has been released from a South Korean prison and is now on parole. He served 207 days in jail – just over half the sentence he received after being convicted of bribery and embezzlement in January. The case involved the country’s former President Park Guen-hye, who is also in jail for […]
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Facebook has removed hundreds of accounts which it says were involved in anti-vax disinformation campaign operated from Russia. The company said the network of accounts targeted India, Latin America and the US. They attempted to recruit influencers to spread false claims to undermine public confidence in particular Covid-19 vaccines, it added. In its latest report […]
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WhatsApp is rolling out a feature that allows users to have photos or videos vanish after they are seen. After the recipient opens the image for the first time, “view once” deletes it, without saving it to a phone. WhatsApp said the feature was aimed at “giving users even more control over their privacy”. However, […]
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