Calls

New Home Secretary calls for an end to end-to-end encryption 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- August 1, 2019
UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has taken to the pages of The Telegraph to call for Facebook to insert back door access to the end-to-end encryption system of its messaging platform and other , as members of the Five Eyes nations meet to call for the same. When protecting digital traffic, there are effectively two
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US AG William Barr calls for encryption back door 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- July 24, 2019
US Attorney General William Barr has become the latest to call for back-door access in end-to-end encryption systems, claiming that the risk of adding such capabilities is not ‘materially greater than [vulnerabilities] already in the unmodified product.‘ Cryptography, the art of using mathematics to turn data into gibberish and back into useful data again only
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Internet Matters calls for parents and kids to game together 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- July 8, 2019
Industry-funded not-for-profit campaign group Internet Matters has called on parents and carers to spend time playing computer and video games with their children – in order to better understand the risks and benefits involved. Founded in 2014 by internet service providers BT, Sky, TalkTalk, and Virgin Media, Internet Matters concerns itself with education on the
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Vodafone & Amazon Deliver Hands-Free Mobile Calls Via Alexa 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- June 19, 2019
In a global first partnership, Vodafone has announced that customers with Amazon Echo at home are now able to use their devices to make and receive mobile calls. The new collaboration means that Echo users with Vodafone OneNumber can use Amazon’s virtual assistant, Alexa, to make or take phone calls hands-free simply by linking their
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Freddie Starr’s ‘daughter’ calls for a DNA test to finally find out if it’s true 0
- BUSINESS
- May 16, 2019
Freddie Starr’s ‘daughter’, 44, whose mother told her she had a fling with the comedian in the 1970s calls for a DNA test to finally find out if it’s true Jo Billam, 44, was told she was Freddie Starr’s daughter by her mother Her mother is said to have had a relationship with the comedian
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Knife crime: Prince Charles calls for end to ‘pervasive horror’0
- BUSINESS
- April 19, 2019
Image copyright PA Prince Charles has called for an end to the “pervasive horror of knife crime” in an Easter message. The Prince of Wales says offenders must be punished, but forgiveness has an “extraordinary power” to change them. It comes as concern grows over youth-related violence, with campaigners calling it a “national emergency”. Writing
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