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Zuckerberg apologises for #Facebook #Cambridge Analytica scandal in written testimony

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Before his much-anticipated appearance on Capitol Hill this week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has provided written testimony to Congress in which he apologises for failing to prevent the collection of tens of millions of users’ personal data by a data analytics company. Zuckerberg is scheduled to appear before a joint US congressional hearing after admitting that up to 87 million users may have had their data improperly utilised by Cambridge Analytica to build election voter profiles. The data-mining scandal is exacerbated by the vast amounts of money Facebook is making from its billions of users around the world. The public … Continue reading Zuckerberg apologises for #Facebook #Cambridge Analytica scandal in written testimony

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World’s first computer-virus infected human is non-threat, non-story

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The University of Reading’s latest attempt to flog flaky ‘research’ into the public domain has, predictably perhaps, backfired. Dr Mark Gasson (pictured, left), from Reading’s School of Systems Engineering, home to Reading’s notorious Cybernetic Intelligence Research Group, is claiming to be ‘the first person in the world to be infected by a computer virus’: a RFID chip which had been inserted into his hand as part of ‘research into human enhancement and the potential risks of implantable devices’ of the kind placed in pets was deliberately infected by malware; but not the kind of malware that is commonly found in … Continue reading World’s first computer-virus infected human is non-threat, non-story