This week's roundup looked at the top news stories from the Global B2B tech & telecoms industry.
The stories cover Data Privacy, Cyber Attacks, Ebikes, Elon Musk, AI, Meta, Social Media, Google Maps, Cloud and ChatGPT.
Here are our highlights:
Monday _____________________________
TikTok fined €345m over children's data privacy
Irish regulators have fined TikTok €345m (£296m) for violating children's privacy. The complaint concerned how the social media app handled children's data in 2020 - particularly around age verification and privacy settings. It is the biggest fine to date TikTok has received from regulators.
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/48mRbYD
Greater Manchester Police officers' details hacked in cyber attack
The firm in Stockport, which makes ID cards, holds information on various UK organisations including some of the staff employed by Greater Manchester Police (GMP).
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/44VN7vp
Tuesday_____________________________
'Food delivery driver' suffers life-changing injuries from e-bike fire
The London Fire Brigade warned that there have been 137 fires involving an e-bike or e-scooter this year alone, in which three people died and 50 more were injured.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/46eVRxQ
Elon Musk: Social media platform X could go behind paywall
Elon Musk has suggested that all users of X, formerly called Twitter, may have to pay for access to the platform.
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/3ZlREGm
Wednesday___________________________
UK competition watchdog fleshes out approach to AI regulation
Accountability, flexibility and transparency are among the seven principles that will guide the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)’s approach to keeping tabs on AI.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3ZrweaA
Braverman and Facebook clash over private message plans
Facebook's owner Meta has hit back at a government campaign strongly critical of its plans to encrypt messages.
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/3ZnZ77G
Thursday____________________________
Online Safety Bill: Crackdown on harmful social media content agreed
Peers have passed a controversial new law aimed at making social media firms more responsible for users' safety on their platforms. The Online Safety Bill has taken years to agree and will force firms to remove illegal content and protect children from some legal but harmful material.
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/3rlpcHV
Google accused of directing motorist to drive off collapsed bridge
The family of a US man who drowned after driving off a collapsed bridge are claiming that he died because Google failed to update its maps.
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/3t00UUq
friday____________________________
Ericsson teams up with Google Cloud again to expand Cloud RAN offering
Ericsson and Google Cloud have further expanded their partnership with the former offering its Cloud RAN (radio access network) solution on the latter’s distributed cloud.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3PrFRSm
Game of Thrones author sues ChatGPT owner OpenAI
US authors George RR Martin and John Grisham are suing ChatGPT-owner OpenAI over claims their copyright was infringed to train the system. Martin is known for his fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, which was adapted into HBO show Game of Thrones.
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/45Wm44m
