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Ride-hailing firm Uber has been ordered by an Amsterdam court to reinstate five British drivers and one Dutch driver with compensation after finding that they were unlawfully dismissed for fraud by the app’s algorithm.
The drivers involved in the case – which was brought by the...
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Google is embarking on a multi-pronged push across several business units to make it easier for people around the globe to access the Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine.
These efforts include stumping up funds to ensure people in lower-income countries can access vaccines, providing millions of dollars’ worth...
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As has long been anticipated, US president Joe Biden has today (15 April) signed an executive order imposing fresh sanctions on Russia over a pattern of malicious cyber attacks against the US and allies, including the December 2020 SolarWinds attacks, which it has now formally attributed...
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The government is the only obstacle to victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal receiving the financial damages they deserve, after the Post Office CEO urged it to pay up.
Hundreds of subpostmasters had their lives destroyed after they were blamed and punished for accounting shortfalls,...
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The University of Hertfordshire has become the latest victim of a spate of cyber attacks against academic institutions after a major incident knocked all its systems offline.
The attack on its network is understood to have begun shortly before 10pm on Wednesday 14 April, and...
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Cyber criminals continue to imitate well-known technology brands in their phishing attacks, playing on the trust that people have in companies such as Microsoft, according to new data compiled by Check Point Research.
In its latest Brand phishing report for Q1 2021, Check Point said Microsoft...
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Next month, Microsoft will stop issuing security updates for Windows 10 build 1909, two years after its release. This may not be receiving the same headlines as end of support for Windows 7 or Windows XP, but it was an unpatched, unsupported Windows operating system that...
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Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has initiated an own-volition inquiry under section 110 of the Irish Data Protection Act of 2018 following the leak of a vast tranche of personal data on Facebook users that had been scraped from the site.
The leaked data was scraped...
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An international coalition of 35 children’s and consumer groups called on Instagram on Thursday to scrap its plans to develop a version of the popular photo-sharing app for users under age 13.Instagram’s push for a separate children’s app comes after years of complaints from...
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The roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine has – in the main – been welcomed with open arms, offering as it does a route out of lockdown and an eventual return to ‘normal’ life.
But, as with the pandemic itself, it raises some complex questions with the...
