At midday on 10 November, Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s high-profile enforcer of competition law, unveiled the p…
How Twitter’s new retweet policy limited Joe Biden’s reach
A Twitter update intended to encourage thoughtfulness on the platform in the run up to the presidential election has …
How the Cambridge Analytica scandal unravelled
The notion that the contentious British firm played a pivotal role in the Trump and Brexit votes has become ever hard…
Nvidia plans to build the UK’s fastest supercomputer
US chip company Nvidia has announced it will build the UK’s fastest supercomputer, for the use of healthcare re…
Union urges government to reign in employee surveillance tech
Prospect Union is calling for the government to reign in employers using invasive surveillance tools – such as keystr…
The ‘real’ oversight board: ‘It’s about increasing pressure on Facebook to act’
In November 2018, Facebook announced plans to launch an independent oversight board, billed as a ‘supreme court…
Five must-read stories from the intersection of tech, business and politics
From news details about the EU’s Digital Services Act to the biggest govtech deals of the last few days, here a…
Facebook oversight committee to launch before the US election
Facebook’s long-hyped oversight board, billed as a “supreme court” for content decisions, will finally la…
Five must-read stories from the intersection of tech, business and politics
From the EU’s war on encryption to Facebook’s threat to pull out of Europe, here are the key developments…
Will Facebook really pull out of Europe?
Facebook is threatening to pull the plug on its operations in Europe following a court order demanding it to stop tra…