Month: August 2020

Chris and Ian discuss Tech Power, Garmin, Twitter and TikTok

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• Government admits breaking privacy law with NHS test and trace
• UK commits to redesign visa streaming algorithm after challenge to ‘racist’ tool
• Will Garmin Pay $10 Million Ransom To End Two-Day Outage?
• Garmin ‘paid multi-million dollar ransom to criminals using Arete IR’, say sources
• Twitter cracks down on QAnon conspiracy theory, banning 7,000 accounts
• Donald Trump Jr suspended from tweeting after Covid post
• Twitter bans ex-KKK leader David Duke
• Wiley permanently suspended from Twitter over antisemitic posts
• Twitter admits hackers accessed DMs of dozens of high-profile accounts
• Twitter says ‘phone spear phishing attack’ used to gain network access in crypto scam breach
• Twitter hack: Bognor Regis man one of three charged
• After ad revenue drop, Twitter tells investors it’s eyeing subscription options
• Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google face claims of ‘harmful’ power
• EU launching deep probe into Google’s planned $2.1 billion Fitbit buy
• Slack makes EU antitrust claim against Microsoft over Teams
• Telegram hits out at Apple’s App Store ‘tax’ in latest EU antitrust complaint
• Amazon takes on supermarkets with free food delivery
• Apple digs in over its App Store fees
• Apple’s veteran marketing chief Phil Schiller moves to smaller role
• TikTok launches £54m fund for European creators to make videos
• TikTok updates policies to ban deepfakes, expand fact-checks, and flag election misinfo
• Report: Microsoft in talks to buy TikTok’s US business from China’s ByteDance
• Trump told reporters he will use executive power to ban TikTok
• Donald Trump: US Treasury should get cut of TikTok deal
• INSTAGRAM LAUNCHES REELS, ITS ATTEMPT TO KEEP YOU OFF TIKTOK