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Penalty levied by Ireland’s privacy regulator sets record for breach of EU’s data protection regulationFacebook is to be fined more than €746m (£648m) and ordered to suspend data transfers to the US as an Irish regulator prepares to punish the social …
Actor urged ‘people in power’ to criminalise harmful digital content when she accepted Bafta award Online safety campaigners have welcomed Kate Winslet’s call on “people in power” to criminalise harmful digital content during her Bafta acceptance speec…
Digital publisher and owner of Vice News and Vice TV was once valued at $6bn but has agreed sale for $225mVice, the once high-flying media startup which reached a peak valuation of nearly $6bn (£5bn) has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US as the…
NBCUniversal’s advertising executive will take over as boss, with Musk holding on to senior role in companyFrom dealing with Musk to fixing Twitter Blue: what’s in the next CEO’s in-tray?Elon Musk has named NBCUniversal’s head of global advertising as …
Boss of industry body UK Finance accuses tech companies of ‘profiting’ from scams on their platformsThe boss of the banking industry body UK Finance has called on social media companies to reimburse victims of online fraud, accusing them of “profiting”…
Widow of ex-editor Harry Evans runs foundation supporting original reportage, which is holding first event this week“Corporate timidity” is undermining investigative journalism as news outlets reduce spending on original reporting in favour of material…
Under proposed ‘chat controls’ regulation, any encrypted service provider could be forced to screen for ‘identifiers’An EU plan under which all WhatsApp, iMessage and Snapchat accounts could be screened for child abuse content has hit a significant obs…
‘Intentional ambiguity’ over end-to-end encryption in online safety bill could lead to messaging app being withdrawnThe UK government risks sleepwalking into a confrontation with WhatsApp that could lead to the messaging app disappearing from Britain, …
Buzzfeed, Vice, Gawker and Drudge Report are all traffic-war casualties, but they succeeded in shaking up the media landscapeToward the end of Traffic, a new account of the early rock n roll years of internet publishing, Ben Smith writes that the faili…
Feature allows users to set a list of friends and post tweets that only they are supposed to be able to readA privacy breach at Twitter published tweets that were never supposed to be seen by anyone but the poster’s closest friends to the site at large…