Month: August 2022
Snapchat biometric use law suit
Snapchat was accused of violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act by allegedly collecting voiceprints and scans of facial geometry. Snapchat has reached a $35m class action lawsuit deal over claims it used lenses and filters to collect the biometric data of users. The social media platform denies any wrongdoing in the case brought against
McAfee “faked” his death
An ex-girlfriend of John McAfee has claimed that the cyber security pioneer faked his own death in a Spanish prison last year and is secretly living in Texas. At the time of his death, McAfee was facing charges of tax evasion and fraud and was fighting extradition to the US.Ms McAfee disputes the verdict of
Proud boys accounts deleted on Instagram and Facebook
Meta has removed more than 450 accounts, pages, and groups linked to the Proud Boys on Facebook and Instagram, four years after the far-right extremist group was banned across its platforms. “We know adversarial groups like this continue changing tactics, trying to evade detection and come back,” Ms Hussein . “Our team recently uncovered and
Artemis 1
Artemis 1 is the first flight for Nasa’s fiant Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion capsule, serving as a crucial test for making sure all the related systems function properly in space ahead of the first humans climbing aboard Artemis 2 in 2023. The launch Nasa’s Artemis 1 mission scheduled for Monday morning has been
Trump defends truth social financial “chaos”
Fox Business reported that Truth Social’s parent company owes more than $1m in payments to its web server and internet infrastructure company, RightForge. Donald Trump has to appeared hit-back at reports of financial trouble at Truth Social and claimed that his burgeoning social media site is doing “550 per cent” better since the FBI search
The global ocean protection treaty
Despite international waters representing nearly two-thirds of the world’s oceans, only 1.2% is protected. The last international agreement on ocean protection was signed 40 years ago in 1982 – the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. That agreement established an area called the high seas international waters where all countries have a right
Two Russian nuclear reactors to be build in Hungary
Russian nuclear power giant Rosatom will begin constructing two new nuclear reactors in Hungary in the coming weeks. The deal, reached between Russia and the EU state in 2014, aims to expand the existing Paks nuclear plant. Russia’s nuclear industry has not been subjected to EU sanctions over its bloody invasion of Ukraine. The Paks
Instagram location feature
Instagram location feature was praised when it was first released as a way to improve user privacy on mobile devices because it offers an alternative to the blanket application of location services. The setting is automatically enabled for users on apps given permission to access their location. For apps where precise location is turned off,
Meta settles case in Cambridge Analytica scandal
Facebook’s corporate parent has reached a tentative settlement in a case alleging the world’s largest social network service allowed the personal information of millions of its users to be fed to Cambridge Analytica. The case sprang from 2018 disclosures that Cambridge Analytica, a firm with ties to Trump political strategist Stephen Bannon, had paid a
Instagram limits sensitive data shown to young ones
Instagram has updated some safety controls for teenagers so they are less likely to encounter potentially sensitive content on the site. Instagram says the tool makes it more difficult for young people to come across sensitive content or accounts across all areas of the platform, including search results and suggested accounts. As part of its