Timcast: “A former Twitter employee has been sentenced to 42 months in federal prison for selling user data to the Saudi royal family.” Analyst Comment: The employee received over $240,000 in cash and gifts for sharing the user data....
Dec 1, 2022
“Google and YouTube on Tuesday said they will spend $12 million to create a Global Fact Check Fund that will support a network of 135 fact-checking organizations operating from 65 countries in more than 80 languages. The money is part of a $13.5 million grant...
Dec 1, 2022
“EU Commissioner Thierry Breton told Musk he must ditch an ‘arbitrary’ approach to reinstate banned users, pursue ‘disinformation aggressively,’ and agree to an ‘extensive audit’ of the platform.” Source
Nov 29, 2022
“Earlier this month, Apple restricted the use of AirDrop in China. The file-sharing tool for iOS was used by protesters to communicate freely without the risk of censorship, because the tool uses direct connections between devices, creating a local network that...
Nov 28, 2022
MIT Tech Review highlights that many in the West do not understand how China’s social credit score actually functions: There is no country-wide government rating and scoring system. Instead select provinces have implemented several overlapping systems to monitor...
Nov 18, 2022
G20 nations, including the US, have committed to developing universal global vaccine passports in line with WHO frameworks. Source
