Twitter’s AI-powered cropping tool is bias toward excluding black people and men, according to new research from the social media platform. After hearing feedback from users that the tool didn’t serve everyone equitably, Twitter said it would analyse its model again for bias.
Amazon is facing lawsuits from five women who accuse the company of both racial and gender bias. The women have accused the e-commerce giant of favouring men over women in career growth, allowing supervisors to belittle them, and retaliating after they complained, according to a report by Reuters.
HMRC has spent £262,000 on cyber security training for its staff over the past two years, according to official figures. The numbers were obtained by Parliament Street under a Freedom of Information request.
Almost four-fifths of UK consumers believe that everything will have a virtual component after the pandemic has ended, according to new research from Zoom. The study surveyed nearly 8,000 consumers, including over 1,000 in the UK.
Sutton and Kingston councils are deploying sensors to monitor rising water levels to help reduce the risk of disruption from road closures caused by surface water flooding. Kingston has suffered from major flooding in the past, which has resulted in the borough’s road network grinding to a halt in the town centre.
Amazon has extended its moratorium on the police use of its facial recognition software. The company first imposed a suspension of the technology by law enforcement in June 2020.
Google has announced it is launching its news showcase in India. Google News Showcase is a new licensing programme that pays publishers to curate content for story panels across Google services.
The German Federal Cartel Office has announced the initiation of proceedings against Amazon based on new rules for BigTech companies. The antitrust watchdog said that it is examining whether Amazon is of “paramount significance for competition across markets.”
Transport for London (TfL) will launch a 12-month e-scooter trial with Dott, Lime, and TIER in the capital next month. The rental trial will begin on 7 June in a core group of boroughs, Canary Wharf, and the City of London, with more areas expected to join the year-long trial.
The government has announced it has new plans to boost the cyber resilience of the UK’s critical supply chains. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) is calling for views on a number of measures to enhance the security of digital supply chains and third party IT services, used by firms for things such as data processing and infrastructure management.
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and KPMG UK have launched a second survey to explore new benchmarks on disability and neurodiversity to improve understanding of diversity characteristics within the workforce.
Ireland’s data regulator can now go ahead with an investigation that could lead to the ban of Facebook’s transatlantic data transfers, following a High Court ruling on Friday.
The government has announced plans for a new ‘Emergency Alerts’ service that will automatically text people when their lives are at risk. The new text alert system will contact Brits in the vicinity of terror attacks, flooding and other natural disasters, as well as other life-threatening scenarios including fires.
More than half of compliance professionals say digital transformation of the customer due diligence process will have the biggest impact on their risk organisation over the next 12 months, according to new research.
The government needs to be clear about what makes online material harmful if new laws are to be effective, experts have said. BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, praised the new legislation but warned that tighter guidelines are necessary to make sure the Online Safety Bill is a success.