Meta has agreed for the first time to stop using the personal data of a specific individual for targeted advertising, as part of a negotiated settlement with human rights campaigner Tanya O’Carroll. Launched in November 2022, O’Carroll’s lawsuit alleged the technology conglomerate was ignoring her legal right to object to the processing and continued use…
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Legal and IT experts have made submissions to the government’s call for views on the current rules around the use of computer evidence in court, which closes today. The wider public understanding of the Post Office Horizon scandal, which saw innocent subpostmasters jailed based on flawed evidence from an accounting system, forced the government to…
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Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 15 April 2025 How will Trump’s tariffs hit tech? Share this item with your network: In this week’s Computer Weekly, we examine the potential impact of additional US tariffs on the global tech supply chain – and what it means for IT budgets. We look at…
One of the cyber security world’s most significant assets, the common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) system operated by US-based non-profit Mitre appears to be heading for trouble, after it emerged that the contract pathway for Mitre to continue to run the project on behalf of the US authorities is set to lapse on Wednesday 16…
Saudi Arabia is investing in foreign deeptech startups to get them to come to its country and help it build an industry, because its own sci-tech ecosystem is too immature to meet its ambition of becoming a global leader in state-of-the-art fields of technology. The yawning gap to the goal it set for deeptech to…
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With a large ecosystem of partners in France in both the public and private sectors, Microsoft already has a big stake in the country. But last May, the company announced it will be upping the ante with an investment of €4bn to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud technologies. The company said…
Football players are issuing “stop processing” requests to gaming, betting and data-processing firms over the use of their performance, health and injury data, citing ethical concerns with how the information being distributed about them can affect their career prospects. Under Article 21 of the UK’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), individuals have the right to…
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As LinkedIn’s chief product officer (CPO), Tomer Cohen oversees the teams responsible for product management, user experience and design, and customer operations. His journey to his C-suite role came after admiring the company from afar. Cohen moved to Silicon Valley in 2008 from Israel to study at Stanford University. He attended a lecture discussing the…
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Dozens of technology firms are continuing to put the lives and livelihoods of supply chain workers at risk by failing to meet even the most basic due diligence expectations around forced labour and human rights abuses, finds sectoral analysis. Conducted by KnowTheChain (KTC) – a project run by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre…
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The Post Office is pushing the government to give the benefit of the doubt to more than 1,000 former subpostmasters claiming compensation, where it hasn’t yet found evidence that Horizon errors caused shortfalls. The claimants have applied for a £75,000 fixed payment under the Post Office’s Horizon Shortfall Scheme (HSS) – previously called the Historical…
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