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„We have seen that the General Data Protection Regulation is not so easily enforceable. We thought that it would move the locus of power back into the hands of citizens but it did not. It still rests with huge corporates.”, says Jan Zygmuntowski, an economist associated with the Instrat Foundation and Kozminski University.   Wojtek Łobodziński, EURACTIV.pl: How would you briefly describe the relations between the European Union and the digital market? Are Digital Service Act (DSA) and D...

Federal Court Denies Parlers Request to Force Amazon to Host Its Service In the recent update of the ongoing saga between controversial social media app Parler and the Big Techs like Amazon, Judge Barbara Rothstein from the Western Washington US District Court denied the social networks bid into forcing Amazon to host the site back on its Web Service.  Parler accused Amazon of being "motivated by political animus" when deciding to cut its Web Service from the network earlier this month. As Te...

25-01-2021 ) The stunning events in Washington on 6 January not only showed the fragility of modern democracies but also demonstrated the untamed power of Big Tech, writes Marc Sundermann, Paolo Cesarini and Christophe Leclercq. EPA-EFE/JIM LO SCALZO

Parler Back Online: How a Russian Tech Firm Played a Part in the Platforms Return After a short period of the website down, controversial social media platform Parlor is now partially back online thanks to a Russia-based tech firm. Interestingly, the tech company has several ties to other racist and conspiracy theory sites.  As spotted by Reuters, Parler uses an internet protocol address owned by DDoS-Guard. According to infrastructure expert Ronald Guilmette, the Russian company has a long la...

Vijay Shekhar Sharma also said Indian entrepreneurs should call out Big Tech companies, to

Tech giants should stop treating India like third-world country: Paytms Vijay Shekhar Referring to WhatsApps new privacy policy and the companys recent frontpage newspaper ads about users privacy, Sharma said, "Why does Europe get a policy and India only a newspaper advertisement?" BusinessToday.In | January 14, 2021 | Updated 17:14 IST Paytm Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Vijay Shekhar Sharma US-based big tech companies must stop treating India like a "Third-World market" as it is the largest...

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When it comes to invention, we ain’t seen nothing yet. The chances are good, and getting better, that in the coming year and the years after it, our world will essentially reinvent itself. That revolution already is underway but, as with most progress, there are political challenges. Congress needs restraint in dealing with the technological revolution and not to dust off old, antitrust tapes. With the surging inventiveness we are seeing today across the creative spectrum — inventiven...

Global technology trends fueling exponential growth December 21, 2020, 5:55 PM IST Mr. Seshadri Kulkarni is a CEO of Digitsecure The global payment battles until about a decade ago were waged and won by financial institutions and processors primarily riding on global card networks in existing, well-defined markets. Until the beginning of the 21st century, the two most populous markets – China and India – were a mere blip on the global payments lands...

Google Gives Free Weekly PCR-Based Swab COVID-19 Test to Employees Google offers free weekly COVID-19 tests for its US employees, which has started on Friday (12/18). The tech giant company is known to give great benefits to its employees, which is now home to over 100,000 employees in Northern America.  As The Wall Street Journals initially reported, the nasal swab tests are available through BioIQ, a health care company in Atlanta that Google has partnered up with. Up to this writing, the ...