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By: Times News Service Muscat: As Oman gears up for this year’s Ramadan, locals and expats need to follow the precautions in place to stop the spread of COVID-19 in the country. Ramadan begins today, and the extent of the measures this year are a bit different as compared to those deployed in 2020. Although there is a night lockdown in effect between 9pm and 4am, free movement is still permitted across the country outside these times, while last year, travel between many governorates was halt...

FTC Investigates Big Tech as Apple Rolls Out New Privacy Labels in App Store The Federal Trade Commission is launching a privacy investigation of top technology platforms into how they use and collect people’s personal data. The move comes as regulators and politicians are taking an increasingly combative posture toward Big Tech, including last week’s antitrust suit against Facebook. The agency is looking into how Amazon, Facebook, WhatsApp and others determine which ads and content ...