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EU competition chief holds threat of breaking up Google - 11 avril 2018
The European Union harbours "grave suspicions" about the dominance of Google and has not ruled out breaking it up, the bloc’s competition commissioner has warned.
Margrethe Vestager told The Telegraph that the threat to split the "¨internet giant up into smaller companies must be kept open.
In June last year, the (...)
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Chinese lecturer to use facial-recognition technology to check boredom levels among his students - 13 septembre 2016
A Chinese university lecturer is using facial-recognition technology on his students to help determine the level of interest in his classes, a tool he said could be used in wider education.
Science professor Wei Xiaoyong developed the new "face reader" to identify emotions which suggest if students are bored or (...)
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Internet firms to be banned from offering unbreakable encryption under new laws - 4 novembre 2015
Companies such as Apple, Google and others will no longer be able to offer encryption so advanced that even they cannot decipher it when asked to under the Investigatory Powers Bill
Internet and social media companies will be banned from putting customer communications beyond their own reach under new laws to be (...)
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Snapchat just reserved the rights to store and use all selfies taken with the device - 3 novembre 2015
Think that picture you’re about to send is temporary ? Think again
The beauty of Snapchat is that the photos only last for a few seconds, unless your friend decides to screenshot them.
Even then, you get a notification, so can know exactly which photos of you are owned by someone else.
However, now, the app has (...)
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Chinese restaurant promises free food to the beautiful - 14 janvier 2015
Beautiful people eat for free : restaurant in Zhengzhou determines customers’ bill according to how attractive they are
A restaurant in central China is offering free meals to its most attractive clients.
The Jeju Island restaurant, a Korean eatery in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, says the 50 most handsome (...)
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Anti-terror plan to spy on toddlers ’is heavy-handed’ - 8 janvier 2015
Nursery staff and childminders are given ’duty’ to report toddlers they suspect of being at risk of becoming terrorists under new Home Office measures
Nursery school staff and registered childminders must report toddlers at risk of becoming terrorists, under counter-terrorism measures proposed by the Government. (...)
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The Government is trying to create a surveillance state - 22 juillet 2014
The "snooper’s charter" Drip legislation is a massive encroachment on rights and freedoms of British voters
One of the most shocking discoveries from Edward Snowden’s disclosures was that GCHQ, the British intelligence agency, is tapping undersea cables to harvest the communications of people from all around the (...)
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Health and fitness apps "˜harvesting data’ - 10 septembre 2013
Health and fitness apps have been harvesting sensitive personal data and passing it on to insurance and pharmaceutical companies, it has been reported.
The top 20 health and wellness apps, including MapMyFitness, Web MD Healh and iPeriod, have been sending information to up to 70 third-party companies, according (...)
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Mobile giants to profit from data they hold on millions of phone customers - 16 août 2013
Information on more than 17 million mobile phone customers will be used to sell advertising on the internet later this summer.
A venture set up by Vodafone, O2 and EE will look to profit from the data they have collected from customers by placing advertisements on behalf of multi-national corporations such as (...)
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Barclays to sell on data from savers and track mobile phones - 16 août 2013
Barclays Bank is to start selling data on its millions of current and savings account customers to other companies for the first time.
The bank has told savers that it intends to package together "information about the transactions on your account" with data on groups of other customers to compile reports on (...)
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Travellers’ mobile phone data seized by police at border - 16 juillet 2013
Thousands of innocent holidaymakers and travellers are having their phones seized and personal data downloaded and stored by the police, The Telegraph can disclose.
Officers use counter-terrorism laws to remove a mobile phone from any passenger they wish coming through UK air, sea and international rail ports (...)
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Revealed : al-Qaeda’s 22 tips for dodging drones - 22 février 2013
Al-Qaeda’s list of 22 tips for dodging drone attacks - including at least one believed to originate with Osama bin Laden - has been found hidden inside a manila envelope in a building abandoned by Islamists in Mali.
The document includes advice such as "hide under thick trees" (believed to be bin Laden’s (...)
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Tory MEPs ’copy and paste Amazon and Google lobbyist text’ - 13 février 2013
Senior Conservative MEPs have been accused of cutting and pasting text from lobbyists from Amazon, Google and other major online enterprises directly into legal amendments to European Union legislation on consumer data protection.
The European Parliament is debating a new EU "general data protection regulation" (...)
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Cyberwills : More web users seeking to protect ’online legacies’ in death - 18 novembre 2012
People concerned about what remains on the internet when they die are compiling "digital wills" to help erase any embarrassing online legacies, it emerged today.
Increasing number of Britons are leaving their passwords, login details, passwords and detailed instructions to digital executors who then use that (...)
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David Cameron ’orders new curbs on internet porn’ - 17 novembre 2012
David Cameron has ordered tough new controls on web pornography to protect children, it has been reported.
The new measures will mean that in future anyone buying a new computer or signing up with a new internet service provider (ISP) will be asked, when they log on for the first time, whether they have (...)
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Apple launches new patent claims against Samsung and Android - 7 novembre 2012
Apple has claimed that Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10.1 and Google’s Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system infringe on its patents.
Apple has escalated its patent war with Samsung, telling a judge that Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet infringes its patents and attempting to add the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating (...)
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Pilot-inspired snow goggles let users read text messages as they ski - 1er novembre 2012
New ski goggles with a built in heads-up display lets users check their speed, location and text messages as they head down the mountain.
It the kind of equipment you would expect to see on a fighter pilot : goggles with a built-in heads-up display that lets you read text messages, check your speed and locate (...)
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Apple ’to purchase Color Labs’ - 18 octobre 2012
Apple is to buy photo and video sharing social network Color Labs, it has been claimed.
The iPhone manufacturer is understood to have purchased Color Labs for a million dollar figure. The deal is confirmed although not yet signed, according to the The Next Web.
It is thought Apple may be interested in securing (...)
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Copyright holders call for unlawful downloading regime to cover 4G networks - 8 octobre 2012
Software and entertainment firms have called on Ofcom to expand the scope of a forthcoming anti-piracy regime to cover mobile operators, over fears that superfast 4G broadband networks will lead to growth in unlawful filesharing.
The regulator has drawn up an Initial Obligations Code, a set of rules designed to (...)
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Facebook battles advertiser doubts - 2 octobre 2012
Facebook is battling doubts in the advertising industry over the effectiveness of advertising on world’s largest social network.
The firm is preparing to unveil data to counter its critics and show that "clicks", the current measure of choice, tell only half the story.
Facebook was embarrassed just days before (...)
