UK
China threatens UK after reconsidering Huawei 5G deal, says UK will “pay a price”
China’s state propaganda outlets tell Britain there will be consequences.
Facebook, Twitter, and Google to face UK lawmakers over controlling coronavirus “conspiracies”
MPs want Big Tech to answer for what they allow people to speak about online.
How face mask selfies are proving valuable to train face-detection AI
Companies want to be able to detect your identity even while you wear a mask.
Huawei’s $6.1M deal with UK coronavirus-modeling college raises eyebrows, faces scrutiny
The deal has garnered attention for a variety of reasons.
Facebook’s recent acquisition spree has gained little attention
The media are always complaining about Facebook not censoring enough, but the real threat of Facebook runs deeper.
UK NHS corona tracing app details leaked in Google Doc accidentally made public
The developers can’t handle a Google Doc and want to handle sensitive user data.
Even media freedom groups push back against Twitter’s coronavirus censorship rules
While the media these days often push for more censorship – not all of them are towing the line.
Rapper Zuby releases new single “OK Dude” on the back of Twitter censorship
The single dropped today.
Facebook’s realtime censors hinder Animal Crossing “weed” removal service sales
Posts are getting deleted as soon as they’re created.
UK security agency blacklists the terms “blacklist” and “whitelist” to “stamp out racism”
Now it’s “allow list” and “deny list.”
YouTube’s UK chief tweets support for former FT reporter Mark Di Stefano after eavesdropping controversy
Di Stefano, notorious for reporting YouTubers to YouTube, appears to have had a friendly relationship with YouTube’s UK executive.