By announcing a draft decision on U.S. sufficiency, the European Commission has opened the door for the adoption of a new EU-U.S. data transfer agreement the following year. You can obtain the draft adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF) from this page. The EU executive body and …

The popular social mapping tool Zenly, which Snap purchased five years ago, will be discontinued on February 3rd, 2023. There is nothing quite like Zenly, thus it will be a sad day. The Paris-based team succeeded in developing an app that straddled the line between a social app and a …

Ironically, creating such AI faces a significant scalability issue. Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to assist, and perhaps even replace, humans in carrying out routine jobs and solving challenges that humans have been unable to address. It has to source and absorb ever-larger data troves because it is only as good …

Your persona may continue to exist after death in the form of data. This is particularly true if you use social media frequently (and let’s face it, most of us do), as your personal information leaves a digital trail that endures long after death. By 2060, it’s possible that the …

What you need to know Snapchat has historically avoided the Windows platform like the plague, with no official apps or support. Years after the demise of Windows phones, Snapchat is finally making an appearance in the Microsoft Store. This is a Progressive Web App (PWA) that runs through Microsoft Edge …

Independent legal analysis of the Online Safety Bill, a contentious UK government proposal to regulate online speech under a safety-focused framework, says the draft bill contains some of the broadest mass surveillance powers ever proposed in a Western democracy and also warns that they pose a risk to the integrity …

Now that Shadow has two distinct products, it is a legitimate tech business. The business is also releasing Shadow Drive, a cloud storage service built on Nextcloud, in addition to its cloud computing offering, which is excellent for games. At a news conference in Paris, co-founder and deputy CEO Stéphane …

The decreasing size of Twitter’s personnel, which is said to be down to 2,300 from 7,500 when new owner Elon Musk assumed control, has received a lot of attention. Many people are concerned about the random ways the firm has been downsized, even though we hypothesized that the most recent …

Whether we like it or not, computers and supercomputers control our lives. Every aspect of society has been transformed by them, and we now depend on their technology to go beyond our capabilities. What about their limitations, though? When will we encounter them, what are they, and can we avoid …

Today, the well-known password manager 1Password announced that it will start supporting passkeys in the first quarter of 2023, enabling users to sign in to approved websites and apps without entering a password. Your identity is instead verified through biometric authentication on reliable devices, which eliminates the possibility of password …