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The Week That Was: IT and Media news week 21

Twitter was fined USD 150 million for giving personal information like phone numbers and email addresses to advertisers to be used for targeted ads, the. Twitter has deceptively been using account security data for targeted advertising, the US Federal Trade Commission said.

3D printed weapons is no longer a matter of fiction. Connection and cooperation between law enforcement and the industry/private sector is needed to identify and monitor the developments around 3D printed firearms, a Europol conference in the Hague, the Netherlands concluded. An international network of experts on 3D printed firearms will be created, tasked with keeping law enforcement agencies abreast of developments in 3D printed firearms.

Afghan women TV presenters must cover their faces, the conservative government has ordered. In solidarity with them, male presenters at channel TOLOnews appeared wearing masks, the channel reports.

European Data Protection Supervisor stresses that also while combatting cybercrime, authorities must secure data protection and privacy rights according to EU law. While supporting, in principle, to international cooperation in combatting cybercrime, the EDPS includes in its recommendations to ensure that the future UN convention upholds individuals’ data protection and privacy rights according to EU law.

A team of Ukrainian journalists whose images show Russia’s siege of Mariupol; an Afghan woman TV reporter from TOLOnews whose investigations uncovered gross mismanagement of COVID-19 resources; and a media visionary who pioneered online reporting and exposed corruption in El Salvador, are the winners of the annual Knight International Journalism Award. Netherlands-based media organization Bellingcat and its executive director, Christo Grozev, ”for their innovative work debunking Russian disinformation about the war in Ukraine and linking the Kremlin to the poisoning of opposition figures.”

 

 

 

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