Prime Minister calls for 'digital Dunkirk' in fight against coronavirus
Boris Johnson called on 30 UK tech firms to volunteer their resources to help UK response to COVID-19
Budget 2020: £5bn for full-fibre broadband and two per cent digital services tax to go ahead
Government to create UK equivalent of ARPA in technology investment push
Facebook, Google and other tech firms pledge to follow new guidelines to fight online child abuse
Other tech firms have also shown interest in implementing the guidelines
More than 100,000 hackers now make a career as bounty hunters, claims HackerOne
One-fifth of HackerOne's hackers are full-time bounty hunters - while for others, it's a route into lucrative new IT roles
EU dismisses Zuckerberg's proposed rules for online content regulation
It is Facebook's responsibility to meet EU's demands and not the other way around, says EU Industry Commissioner
Tel Aviv court orders Facebook to restore personal account of NSO Group employee
Facebook had blocked the account last year after suing NSO Group in a US court
Ofcom to be handed role of policing UK social media platforms
Under new legislation, online platforms will be required to remove illegal and harmful content quickly
Google misses revenue targets as online advertising growth declines - but Google Cloud pulls-in $8.9bn in 2019
Cloud computing turned over $8.92bn in 2019, while EU fines fell from $5.1bn to 'just' $1.7bn
Ring App packed with third-party trackers and data shared with analytics firms
Privacy group accuses Amazon's Ring security doorbell app of sharing data with analytics firms, including Facebook
Privacy International demands Amazon, Google and other cloud companies reveal use of 'cloud extraction' technology
Privacy pressure group calls for 17 cloud giants to 'protect customer data from legal backdoors'
Facebook building operating system and silicon to support augmented reality and mind-reading technology push
Operating system development led by Windows NT co-author Mark Lucovsky will share space with Facebook's virtual reality hardware devs
Facebook to stop using 2FA phone numbers for friend suggestions
The change is being introduced in five countries this week
US court jails scammer who fleeced Facebook and Google out of $120m in email fraud
Rimasauskas shook down Google and Facebook with fake emails purporting to be from a major Taiwan-based supplier
ECJ opinion backs Facebook over data privacy 'standard contractual clauses'
Advocate general Henrik Saugmandsgaard Øe backs standard contract clauses, but warns they require ongoing scrutiny
Facebook owns the four most popular apps of the 2010s
Along came (mono)poly
Dominance of Google and Facebook prevents rivals from competing with them on equal terms, warns CMA
The CMA will release its final report into the UK online advertising industry in the summer
European Court of Justice Privacy Shield legal opinion to be published on Thursday
ECJ advocate general also considering whether EU's standard contractual clauses provide sufficient protection for European consumers
Facebook asks users for help in spotting deepfakes
The winner of Facebook's challenge will take home a $500,000 prize
Facebook turns down Attorney General's request for access to its messaging products
That would be a gift to hackers, criminals and repressive regimes, Facebook believes
Cambridge Analytica deceived Facebook users, rules FTC
Now defunct firm is now required to delete all the data it collected on Facebook users
Tim Berners-Lee launches 'Contract for the Web' to govern internet giants and governments
Google, Facebook and others sign-up to Berners-Lee's 'global plan of action to make our online world safe and empowering for everyone'
Facebook Pay rolls out in the US following India trial
Facebook Pay joins an increasingly crowded market for online payment, with Google launching banking services next year
Facebook receives record number of user-data demands from governments
Facebook received 128,617 user data requests from governments during the first half of 2019, according to its latest Transparency Report
Facebook admits iOS 'bug' that enabled its app to access iPhone cameras
It was a complete mistake, honest, swears Facebook
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