Europe congratulates itself for GDPR, but more needs to be done
While some might be looking for holes to pick in Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, the rules have laid the foundations of a safer and more consumer-empowered digital economy.
While some might be looking for holes to pick in Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, the rules have laid the foundations of a safer and more consumer-empowered digital economy.
Average daily time spent online by UK adults topped four hours for the first time in April of this year, with much of the country compelled to stay at home coz of coronavirus.
Three US Senators have ignored the Law of Unintended Consequences by proposing new legislation which would end-to-end encryption as we know it today.
Facebook has announced that Mixer, Microsoft’s gaming streaming service, will be folded into its own as the internet giant admits defeat in the segment.
After a brief delay, the usual crew returns to give you your essential fix of telecoms banter. They start by reviewing various bits of Nokia news and what they may say about the fortunes of the company. A similar investigation follows into Huawei news, with the broader geopolitical context thrown into the mix and they conclude by discussing Scott’s bugbear of social media censorship in the light of a few recent developments.
A coalition of political pressure groups has called for a companies to suspend advertising on all Facebook platforms, in protest over it hosting political messages they don’t like.
Gadget giant Apple has caused a controversy by rejecting a premium email app unless it charges for subscriptions through the App Store, thus giving Apple a 30% piece of the action.
Facebook has been confirmed as the new owner of Swedish crowd-sourcing mapping company Mapillary.
Whether it’s important, depressing or just entertaining, the telecoms industry is always one which attracts attention.
Nobody outside of the government and NHSX thought it was a good idea for the UK to develop its own contact tracing app when Google and Apple had already done the heavy lifting for them.
Well that was quick. No sooner does Google censor the comments sections of two independent news sites than the US legislative machine moves to remove its own protections.
A blatant display of targeted, coordinated censorship has resulted in Google threatening two news sites with demonetization unless they delete specified comments sections.
Otherwise known as Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition has been making life uncomfortable for Silicon Valley residents, and now its Apple’s turn.
Pragmatic bunch that they are, the Germans have gone with the only viable approach to developing a contact tracing app, while UK attempts to reinvent the wheel have predictably faltered.
Japanese telecoms operator Softbank has confirmed it is exploring options to offload its stake in T-Mobile US as COVID-19 weighs very heavily on other investments.
In response to the threat of being forced to pay for news posted on its platform in Australia, Facebook has indicated it would rather just block it.
Mukesh Ambani is proving to be one of the most popular figures in the telco world as two more investors have bought into the Reliance Jio mission to digitise India.
Microblogging platform Twitter has returned to more conventional forms of censorship by removing accounts found to be part of state-linked information operations.
French regulator Arcep has confirmed it will auction spectrum licences in the 3.4-3.8 GHz band, finally signalling the beginning of the 5G era in the country.
The general public is angry with authority today and it appears Amazon is attempting to capitalise on this sentiment with a shallow PR stunt.
Nokia share price jumps 13% on improved 5G prospects https://t.co/3ZvUqIiZRP #Corporate #5G
31 July 2020 @ 09:42:02 UTC
Telegram adds another antitrust complaint for Apple to ponder https://t.co/1VqReJIgxn #CloudApps #ContentApplications
30 July 2020 @ 15:49:02 UTC
Huawei saga enters Brazil as US starts posturing https://t.co/tmZk7h3VC8 #5G #Brazil
30 July 2020 @ 14:57:32 UTC
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