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Federal judge blocks Trump ban on TikTok

A federal judge has blocked the United States’ government from forcing Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their US app stores. The administration...

Turkey fines social media giants for breaching new internet law

Turkey has fined global social media companies, including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, $1.18 million each for not complying with a new social media...

French data watchdog fines Google, Amazon millions over cookies rules

France's data privacy regulator CNIL on Thursday said it had fined two Google units a total of €100 million and an Amazon subsidiary...

Digital platforms – prevention not punishment

The current coronavirus pandemic has brought about a very swift change in consumer behaviour. Instead of going out, people prefer to make themselves...

Suspected Russian hackers spied on US Treasury emails

Hackers believed to be working for Russia have been monitoring internal email traffic at the United States’ Treasury and Commerce departments, people familiar...

Twitter to remove COVID vaccine conspiracy tweets

Twitter on Wednesday said that, from next week, it would start removing misleading tweets about COVID-19 vaccinations that could be harmful to public...

Colonial Pipeline Darkside ransom hack shows nobody safe

Batten down the encryption hatches The largest pipeline system for refined oil products in the US, the Colonial Pipeline, was shut down last...

Democracies must hold their companies to higher standards in China

Earlier this month, the New York Times published the findings of its multi-year investigation into how Apple...