Image copyright Getty Images People will be able to get expert health advice using Amazon Alexa devices under a partnership with the NHS, the government has announced. From this week, the voice-assisted technology is automatically searching the NHS Choices website when UK users ask for health-related advice. Previously the device provided information from a range […]
The UK’s data privacy regulator has said it plans to fine the US hotel group Marriott International £99.2m. The penalty relates to a data breach that resulted in about 339 million guests’ having had their personal details exposed. The incident is thought to date back to 2014 but was only discovered in 2018. It comes […]
Image copyright Twitter/Getty Images Twitter is updating its hate-speech rules to ban posts that liken religious groups to rats, viruses or maggots, among other dehumanising terms. Over time, the ban would be extended to cover to some other groups, it said. But a public consultation had indicated users still wished to use dehumanising language to […]
Image copyright EA Four children spent nearly £550 in three weeks buying player packs to play the Fifa football video game online on the family’s Nintendo Switch console. In Fifa, special players can be bought in packs, but the contents are only revealed after payment is completed. The children’s father, Thomas Carter, had bought them […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The flaw can be exploited by forcing Mac users to visit booby-trapped websites Hackers could access cameras on millions of Apple Macs thanks to a vulnerability in Zoom’s video-conferencing software, a security researcher has found. Jonathan Leitschuh uncovered a way to force almost any Mac that has Zoom’s app […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Facebook will be challenged on whether its current practices respect EU citizens’ right to privacy Facebook’s method of transferring data from the EU to the US for business purposes is being challenged again in court. The Irish data protection commissioner is arguing that the legal mechanism for these transfers […]
Image copyright EA Four children spent nearly £550 in three weeks buying player packs to play the Fifa football video game online on the family’s Nintendo Switch console. In Fifa, special players can be bought in packs, but the contents are only revealed after payment is completed. The children’s father, Thomas Carter, had bought them […]
Image copyright EA Four children spent nearly £550 in three weeks buying player packs to play the Fifa football video game online on the family’s Nintendo Switch console. In Fifa, special players can be bought in packs, but the contents are only revealed after payment is completed. The children’s father, Thomas Carter, had bought them […]
Image copyright EA Four children spent nearly £550 in three weeks buying player packs to play the Fifa football video game online on the family’s Nintendo Switch console. In Fifa, special players can be bought in packs, but the contents are only revealed after payment is completed. The children’s father, Thomas Carter, had bought them […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Facebook will be challenged on whether its current practices respect EU citizens’ right to privacy Facebook’s method of transferring data from the EU to the US for business purposes is to be challenged again in court. The Irish data protection commissioner will argue the legal mechanism for these transfers […]
