Google’s takeover of fitness tracker Fitbit could be “a game-changer” for health data that will need close European Union scrutiny, consumer advocates said.
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Government apps designed to help authorities track and slow the spread of Covid-19 are struggling to accomplish their goals because of restrictions on data collection built into smartphones by Apple and Google.
Telegram has officially scrapped plans to build a digital ledger for transactions after it ran afoul of regulators.
The City of Cape Town is awaiting a court ruling on whether it can buy its own electricity from suppliers other than national power utility Eskom without getting approval from the energy minister.
Elon Musk restarted production at Tesla’s only US car plant, flouting county officials who ordered the company to stay closed and openly acknowledging he was risking arrest for himself and his employees.
Business leaders are ratcheting up pressure on President Cyril Ramaphosa to re-open the economy more swiftly, warning that the devastation wreaked by a lockdown could exceed damage caused by the pandemic.
Ever since Donald Trump fired the first shot in the US trade war with China, one technology company has been sitting in the middle, trying to avoid the crossfire.
President Cyril Ramaphosa warned that the coronavirus will be present in the country for at least a year and that infections will rise as lockdown restrictions are eased.
The Covid-19 pandemic likely barely dented Tencent Holdings’ growth. The bigger long-term threat may be the growing posse of challengers to its Internet leadership.
The post-pandemic landscape will be very different. The individual’s autonomy over their data may be lost forever. Our mobiles will keep us safe – by spying on us.