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100% European computing firm Scaleway has been selected as one of four cloud providers under the European Commission’s Cloud III Dynamic Purchasing System, a €180 million procurement programme enabling EU institutions, bodies and agencies to access sovereign cloud services over a period of up to six years. Scaleway is fully immune from any non-EU interference, while also guaranteeing that data localisation is all based within Europe. Pingingz/Shutterstock

Cloud tech outages: how the EU plans to bolster its digital infrastructure

Global digital infrastructure behind literally every modern service requiring data backup or authentification for example, is far more fragile than you’d think…
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Internet sabbaths and surveillance capitalism in the COVID‑19 era: William Powers on what’s changed since Hamlet’s Blackberry

Internet sabbaths and surveillance capitalism in the COVID-era: William Powers on what’s changed since Hamlet’s Blackberry The Conversation57.8 MB (download)
Journalist and author William Powers talks with Media Files about taking an internet sabbath, how the media covers tech and what's changed since his book Hamlet’s Blackberry was first published.
While leaks and whistleblowers continue to be valuable tools in the fight for data privacy, we can’t rely on them solely to keep big tech companies in check. SHUTTERSTOCK

The ugly truth: tech companies are tracking and misusing our data, and there’s little we can do

Most of us are probably having our data tracked in some form. And while there are regulatory safeguards in place to protect user privacy, it’s hard to say whether these are enough.
Ransomware attacks are becoming increasingly complex, as hackers find creative ways to beat ordinary systems of defence. christiaancolen/flickr

Hackers are now targeting councils and governments, threatening to leak citizen data

A recent leakware attack targeting Johannesburg was the second of its kind ever recorded. Hackers demanded A$52,663 worth of bitcoins, in return for not releasing senstivie civilian information.
With a lot not on display, museums may not even know all that’s in their vast holdings. AP Photo/Jae C. Hong

Digitizing the vast ‘dark data’ in museum fossil collections

A tiny percentage of museums’ natural history holdings are on display. Very little of these vast archives is digitized and available online. But museums are working to change that.
Online users are not able to give totally informed consent if their permission is sought for multiple things at once. christin hume unsplash

HealthEngine may be in breach of privacy law in sharing patient data

An online medical appointment booking organisation was sharing personal information about the users of their platform with a plaintiff law firm.

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