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Airline body IATA develops mobile apps for COVID-era travel
“Our main priority is to get people travelling again safely,” IATA security chief Nick Careen said. “That means giving governments confidence that systematic COVID-19 testing can work as a replacement for quarantine requirements.”
Passenger health and other data are not stored centrally but authenticated with blockchain, leaving consumers in control of what they share, IATA said.
Google faces regulatory scrutiny in Britain over ‘Privacy Sandbox’ advertising data revamp
The complaint follows up on concerns about Google’s new system that the watchdog raised in a July report about online platforms and digital advertising. The report recommended the British government adopt a new regulatory approach to governing digital giants making big money from online ads.
Google said the new technology will increase privacy for users while also supporting publishers.
Meanwhile,Russia has opened a case against U.S. tech giant Google for failing to remove banned content from its search engine, communications watchdog Roskomnadzor said on Monday.
Kerala’s new law imposes 5-year jail term or fine of Rs 10,000 for offensive post
Expressing concern over the rising crime graph, fake propaganda and hate speech on social media since the outbreak of COVID-19, the LDF government had said since cyber attacks are amajor threat to private life, it has been decided to amend the Police Act as the existing legal provisions were inadequate tofight such crimes.
Europe to lift Boeing 737 MAX grounding in January, follows US action
“We wanted to carry out a totally independent analysis of the safety of this aircraft, so we performed our own checks and flight tests,” Executive Director Patrick Ky told the Paris Air Forum, an online aviation conference hosted by La Tribune.
“All these studies tell us that the 737 MAX can return to service. We have started to put in place all the measures,” he said. “It is likely that in our case we will adopt the decisions, allowing it to return to service, some time in January.”
FB awards $1.98mn to researchers for findings bugs in 2020
The Facebook bug bounty programme helps it detect and fix issues faster.Over the past 10 years, more than 50,000 researchers joined this programme and around 1,500 researchers from 107 countries were awarded a bounty
India losing $10.3 bn in taxes per year due to tax abuse by MNCs, evasion by individuals: Report
The social impact of the lost tax is equivalent to 44.70 per cent of the health budget and 10.68 per cent of education spending. It also equals paying yearly salaries of over 42.30 lakh nurses.
India is most vulnerable to illicit financial flows in the form of outward FDI and listed Mauritius, Singapore and the Netherlands as the trading partners which are most responsible for this vulnerability.
Aon develops $70mn in alternative capital capacity to transfer systemic cyber risk
The cover allows for limits of up to USD 70 million and will protect against increasing cyber loss aggregations on re/insurers’ balance sheets. The product is structured to protect the cedent from the effects of catastrophic cyber market losses stemming from events such as self-propagating malware or wiperware, distributed denial of service, a significant cloud outage or certificate revocation.
Govt releases backend code of Aarogya Setu to enhance transparency
“Releasing backend code will help people in understanding the complete functioning of the app. This will clear any doubt that they have regarding privacy and security of their data,” a MeitY official explained.
Wealthy countries block COVID-19 drugs rights waiver at WTO – sources
Supporters of the waiver say existing intellectual property (IP) rules create barriers on access to affordable medicines and vaccines and they want restrictions to be eased, as they were during the AIDS epidemic.
Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $120 million damages in New York baby powder case
Johnson & Johnson said it will appeal the verdict, citing “significant legal and evidentiary errors” at the trial.
“We deeply sympathize with anyone suffering from cancer, which is why the facts are so important,” the company said. “We remain confident that our talc is safe, asbestos free, and does not cause cancer.”