The Tide Turned Against Tech in 2018
2019 Should be the Year for Action to Curb Harms Stemming From Technology & Social Media Throughout 2018, the tech industry experienced controversy after controversy, and companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter were finally forced to apologize for their failures. But as the tech giants continued to hide behind their empty promises to improve privacy […]
The Top 5 Risks of Crypto-Currencies
By Kayla Elliot Crytpo-Currencies — Are they worth the risk? Everything we do comes with risks. It is our job to determine if the rewards outweigh the risks. This is the same philosophy when it comes to digital currencies, like bitcoin or monero. However, the concept of a digital currency is rather new, therefore, our society […]
Neo-Nazis & Terror Videos: The Normalization of Online Extremism
Neo-Nazis & Terror How-To Videos: The Continued Normalization of Online Extremism Internet & Social Media Contribute to Widespread Proliferation of Extremist Content With the interconnectivity that comes with the Internet and social media, extremists who would have otherwise never found each other are coming together like never before – and they’re finding strength in numbers. The […]
UBA’s Leo launched on WhatsApp
Pan-African Financial Institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA) has announced the commencement of its chat banker ‘Leo’ on the WhatsApp platform. With Leo on WhatsApp, customers who are users and lovers of the app can now can perform basic banking services including checking their balances on the go, transferring funds, paying bills, among other services. The Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, UBA, Mr. Kennedy Uzoka, who expressed […]
Toyota to invest $500m in Uber in driverless car deal
Japanese carmaker Toyota is to invest $500m (£387m) in Uber and expand a partnership to jointly develop self-driving cars. The firm said this would involve the “mass-production” of autonomous vehicles that would be deployed on Uber’s ride sharing network. It is being viewed as a way for both firms to catch up with rivals in […]
Google’s Pro-Free Speech Rhetoric Proves Once Again to be False
Whistleblower Exposes Tech Giant’s Plan to Relaunch Censored Search Engine in China, Contradicts Statements (New York, NY) – On August 1, a whistleblower revealed Google’s plans to relaunch a censored version of its search engine in China to meet the authoritarian government’s demands to limit free speech. “Google’s plans for launching a censored search engine in China demonstrates […]
Stop auto-renewal of data or pay N5m fine – NCC warns mobile network operators*
By Chijioke Jannah. The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC has directed all service providers in the country to stop automatic or unwarranted renewal of data packages without the consent of the subscribers or risk N5million fine. It said the warning became imperative in view of the mounting complaints from subscribers against the service providers for breaching […]
Kenya: Cybercrimes Law Restricts Media Freedom
Washington – May 16, 2018 — In response to Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta signing the Computer and Cybercrimes Law, new legislation that allows criminal charges to be brought against persons deemed to have “intentionally published false, misleading or fictitious data,” Freedom House issued the following statement: “The cybercrimes law is another step backward for media freedom and […]
Facebook facial recognition faces class-action suit
Facebook must face a class action lawsuit over its use of facial recognition technology, a California judge has ruled. The lawsuit alleges that Facebook gathered biometric information without users’ explicit consent. It involves the “tag suggestions” technology, which spots users’ friends in uploaded photos; the lawsuit says this breaches Illinois state law. Facebook said the […]
5 Ways to Avoid Social Media Overload (Health Effects)
By Tanuja Bisht Health experts love to say that sitting is the kind of new smoking. Given the number of diseases to which it belongs and the number of people who have apparently killed each year, sitting in one of the worst things you can do for your health. But perhaps the most disturbing is […]