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Are the world's technology giants now just too big to care?

E&T

The coroner of the inquest into the 2017 death of teenager Molly Russell issued a range of recommendations last September, from reviewing algorithms to separate platforms for children to legislation. That’s why they’re now facing more government regulation, legal challenges and consumer pressure.

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Kiwibot acquires AUTO to strengthen delivery robot security

Robotics Business Review

“This strategic collaboration marks a significant milestone in both companies’ journeys towards innovation and safeguarding privacy in the robotics industry, particularly for intelligent robots sourced from China and deployed in the Western markets,” Kiwibot stated. ” Kiwibot develops delivery robots Berkeley, Calif.

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£3.5bn fine for Google from EU over Android’s anti-competition activities

E&T

The fine is one of three anti-competition penalties totalling more than €8bn (£6.9bn) that the European Commission imposed on Google between 2017 and 2019. Google was also dealt a hefty financial blow in South Korea, where the country's privacy watchdog handed down a fine of of 69.2 Google disagreed with the commission’s findings.

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Teleperformance Applauded by Frost & Sullivan for Helping Organizations Mitigate Security Breaches and Demonstrating an Industry-leading Competitive Strategy

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

Teleperformance continues to set the industry standard for global regulatory compliance, security, and privacy by way of its proprietary protocols and processes. The company has built an extremely strong internal framework to proactively identify and mitigate data breaches and combat fraud.

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Human rights lawyer calls for ‘total rewrite’ of Online Safety Bill

E&T

“It not only threatens free speech, freedom of expression and privacy, but fails to do enough to tackle the real drivers of online harm, such as social media companies actively recommending posts about self-harm, which contributed to the tragic suicide of teenager Molly Russell.”.

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EU calls for Google break up due to anticompetitive practices

E&T

The EU fined Google €2.4bn for manipulating search engine results to promote its own shopping service in 2017, €4.3bn for exploiting the dominance of Android OS in 2018 – which was later lowered to €4.125bn – and €1.5bn in 2019 for blocking rival online search advertisers.

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That TikTok privacy debate in 10 questions

E&T

It was launched internationally in 2017 and has since become one of the most popular social media apps with over one billion monthly active users, almost half of which are between the ages of 16 and 25. In 2021, TikTok updated its privacy policy to make it possible to collect biometric data such as ‘faceprints and voiceprints’ in the US.

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