European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Wojciech Wiewiorowski has requested nations work together through a single app to track the spread of COVID-19. With several nations, including Wiewiorowski’s home country Poland, creating apps for Government authorities and consumers to track the spread of COVID-19, the digital economy is searching for solutions. But there are questions as to whether this is being done in the most effective manner. “Given these divergences, the European Data...

Nokia China CEO Markus Borchert has written an open letter to apologise for missing out on a significant chunk of 5G business, as well as a mysterious letter which appeared in the press. Last month it was announced China Mobile, the worlds’ largest telco, would award the vast majority of its 5G contracts to Chinese firms, with Ericsson collecting a small slither. Nokia was left out of the equation, a bitter pill to swallow considering the cash which would be spent by China Mobile over the...

Google-owned YouTube has altered its community guidelines to ensure all conspiracy theories which suggest 5G is the cause or an accelerator of COVID-19 are removed from the platform. Under the previous guidelines, such content would be labelled as borderline and therefore would be removed from the recommendation engines. YouTube would stop short of eradicating the content from the platform completely, there are of course free-speech complications, but these rules have now been amended. All...

After launching in the UK, US and South Korea, Microsoft has decided to rollout its services in an additional eleven markets. Gaming has always been a staple in the Microsoft diet, thanks to Xbox and Game Studios in bygone years, but cloud gaming offers an opportunity to dramatically scale the business unit. This is a market development which could potentially lower the barrier of entry for consumers, as cloud services are less reliant on extortionately expensive consoles and upgrades. The...

Three months ago, most people would not have been able to tell you what Zoom was, but now at the centre of privacy debacles, the video-conferencing business might be knocking on deaths door. Over the course of the last week there have been several incidents. Individually, the team might have had a chance of fighting back the critics, but with the company being attacked on so many different fronts, it seems only a matter of time before the video-conferencing tool once again fades into...