Emma Woollacott reports: The Mauritian government is considering plans to monitor and censor social media by intercepting web traffic. In a consultation document (PDF), the country’s Information and Communication Technologies Authority (ICTA) calls for “harmful and illegal contents” to be removed. To achieve this, it says, “It is important to segregate… all incoming and outgoing internet traffic…
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How to Delete Old AOL and Yahoo Accounts
Allen St. John reports: With AOL and Yahoo changing owners for the second time in a half-dozen years, now is a good time to delete any old and unused accounts. Verizon has agreed to sell AOL and Yahoo to the private-equity firm Apollo Global Management for $5 billion, significantly less than the combined purchase price…
Mass legal action against Google would ‘open the floodgates’, (UK) Supreme Court told
PA News reports: A billion-pound legal action against Google over claims it secretly tracked millions of iPhone users’ internet activity would “open the floodgates” to mass data protection claims if it is allowed to go ahead, the Supreme Court has heard. Former Which? director Richard Lloyd, supported by campaign group Google You Owe Us, wants…
To Be Tracked or Not? Apple Is Now Giving Us the Choice.
Brian X. Chen reports: If we had a choice, would any of us want to be tracked online for the sake of seeing more relevant digital ads? We are about to find out. On Monday, Apple released iOS 14.5, one of its most anticipated software updates for iPhones and iPads in years. It includes a new privacy…