UK eyeing switch to Apple-Google API for coronavirus contacts tracing report

The United Kingdom may be rethinking its answer to shun Apple and Google’s API for its national coronavirus contacts tracing app, in keeping with the Monetary Instances, which reported the day gone by that the government is paying an IT supplier to analysis whether or not or no longer it is going to in all probability mix the tech giants’ approa…
The UK may be rethinking its decision to shun Apple and Google’s API for its national coronavirus contacts tracing app, according to the Financial Times, which reported yesterday that the government is paying an IT supplier to investigate whether it can integrate the tech giants’ approa…Original article
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  6. "Google has agreed to pay a 1.1 million fine over misleading star ratings for hotels in France. The tech giant had been applying its own (algorithmic) system of ratings for hotels applied via its search engine and on Google Maps". (February 15, 2021)
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  8. "Google has made its pitch to shape the next decades of digital regulation across the European Union, submitting a 135-page response yesterday to the consultation on the forthcoming Digital Services Act (DSA) which will update the blocs long-standing rules around ecommerce". (September 4, 2020)
  9. "Human rights NGO, Amnesty International, has written to the EUs competition regulator calling for Googles acquisition of wearable maker Fitbit to be blocked unless meaningful safeguards can be baked in". (November 27, 2020)
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