Chinese Video App TikTok To Be Probed By EU Over Data Processing And Privacy Issues

After it came under the scanner of the authorities in the United States over security concerns, Chinese-owned short video app TikTok now is set to be face regulatory scrutiny in Europe. The data processing activities and privacy practices across the European Union of the ByteDance-owned app will now be investigated by the e European Data…

Employees Testing Positive For Covid-19 And Production Issues Plague Tesla At Its California Plant: Reports

The restart of production of main factory of United States based electric car maker Tesla in California is having problems, according to media reports. Apart from threatening to move Tesla operations out of California, the CEO of the company last month also sued the Alameda County to force it to allow the company to restart…

Over 170,000 Pro-China Accounts Posting Pandemic Posts Removed By Twitter

More than 170,000 twitter accounts that were allegedly linked to an operation to spread pro-China messages have been removed by Twitter, the social micro blogging site has been has said. Making the announcement, the social media platform said that some of the accounts were engaged in posting about the coronavirus outbreak. “A core network” of…

Covid-19 Pandemic Has Accelerated Push For Central Bank Digital Currencies

The process of development of crypto currencies by the central banks, known as central bank digital currencies or CBDCs, has been accelerated by the emergence of the novel coronavirus pandemic globally. The pandemic related crisis has not only forced millions to stay at home in order to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus but…

Rights Group Alleges Zoom Temporarily Shut Down Its Account Following Even On Tiananmen Square Anniversary

Allegations against the video conferencing company Zoom had temporarily shut down the account of a United States based group that supports human rights in China after the group had organized an event on the platform to remember the Tiananmen Square massacre of China. The group described the incident of blocking their account as outrageous. The…

New Report Predicts Airline Job Cuts In UK May Be Same As 1980s Mining Industry Slump

A new report on the airline industry of the United Kingdom has warned that a jobs crisis in British aviation industry that is comparable to the scale of the coal mining industry’s collapse during the 1980s was on the cards because of the grounding of air travel during the coronavirus pandemic. This report from the…

‘You’re The Kind Of Customer I’m Happy To Lose’, Says Amazon’s Bezos To Racist Customer

A customer of Amazon who was angry as he criticized the company’s support of the Black Lives Matter movement was given a befitting reply by the company’s CEO Jeff Bezos trough an e-mail. In an Instagram post late Sunday, Bezos described the customer’s email as “sickening” and added that the individual was just the kind…