Apple offers free replacements / repairs on butterfly keyboards
After numerous complaints over the last two years and even an online petition by a customer, Apple has decided to offer free repairs or replacements for the butterfly keyboard on its MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops. What happened? For quite some time now, some MacBook...
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New ‘no cheat’ “locked mode” for classroom on chromebooks
The Google Forms Quiz in its free, browser-based educational software “Classroom” now features a “locked mode” on Chromebooks which prevents students from cheating during quizzes. What is 'classroom'? Google Classroom is a free web service (app) for schools,...
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Calls to stop storing of personal communications data and voiceprints
Privacy groups have led calls to halt the blanket collection and storing of communications data in the EU area, and the creation and storing of the “audio signatures” of 5.1 million people by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). Collection of communications data The privacy...
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Tesla traps Tripp
The former Tesla technician who stands accused by Tesla boss Elon Musk of industrial espionage has been named as Martin Tripp. The allegations made against Mr Tripp include that he was hacking and stealing company secrets, and that he wrote software that was designed...
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GDPR exemption sought
It has been reported that financial market regulators from the US, the UK and Asia are pressing for an exemption from GDPR. Growing calls for exemption Even though GDPR only came into force a little over a month ago (May 25th), financial regulators from several...
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Domain names & GDPR
A recent ruling by a German court about GDPR also applies to personal information held in the worldwide whois service, could mean that domain name admin and tech contact details may no longer be needed because of the GDPR ‘data minimisation principle’. Up until now...
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