privacy
Chinese school uses facial recognition to monitor student attention in class
Posted in Software on 20th May, 2018
by Alex Muller
Chinese school has installed facial recognition technology to monitor how attentive students are in class.
Facebooks facial recognition now finds photos youre untagged in
Posted in Online on 19th Dec, 2017
by Alex Muller
The feature should give people confidence that there arent pics of them floating around Facebook that they could see but just dont know about.
Google faces mass legal action in UK over data snooping
Posted in Online on 1st Dec, 2017
by Alex Muller
Google is being taken to court, accused of collecting the personal data of millions of users, in the first mass legal action of its kind in the UK.
Apple removes VPN services from App Store in China
Posted in Business on 1st Aug, 2017
by Alex Muller
VPNs allow users to bypass Chinas so-called 'Great Firewall' aimed at restricting access to overseas sites.
US pushes Apple for access to iPhones in criminal cases
Posted in Business on 9th Apr, 2016
by Alex Muller
The FBI had said it was able to gain access to the device independently. This method is said only work on certain older models of the iPhone.