*All you need to know about 5G: What is the technology all about, key players and more
LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO: US President Donald Trump recently blocked microchip maker Broadcom Ltd's $117 billion takeovers of rival Qualcomm amid concerns that it would give China the upper hand in the next generation of mobile communications, or 5G.
*Reliance Jio's Mathew Oommen has a 'suggestion' for government
NEW DELHI: New telecom entrant Reliance Jio Infocomm (Jio) has suggested that the Rs 50,000 crore strong corpus-- Universal Service Obligation (USO) fund -- used to bridge the rural-urban digital divide, should not be misused on promoting ‘obsolete technologies’ to fuel rural connectivity.
Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani-owned Jio that has forayed into pure-play 4G telecom services in September 2016 on the back of freebies has led Sunil Mittal-driven market leader Bharti Airtel, UK-based Vodafone India and Aditya Birla group’s Idea Cellular to a receiving end.
Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani-owned Jio that has forayed into pure-play 4G telecom services in September 2016 on the back of freebies has led Sunil Mittal-driven market leader Bharti Airtel, UK-based Vodafone India and Aditya Birla group’s Idea Cellular to a receiving end.
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Cambridge Analytica raided by UK data watchdog
The UK’s data watchdog, the ICO, finally obtained a warrant to enter and search the offices of Cambridge Analytica late Friday — carrying out an evidence gathering sweep of the company into the small hours of Saturday morning.
Cambridge Analytica is at the center of a data misuse storm that’s wiped billions off the value of Facebook since newspaper revelations late last week revealed the extent of data swiped by the UK political consultancy which intended to use the information for the Trump campaign.
In a statement on its website today, the ICO said:
The warrant to inspect the premises of Cambridge Analytica was executed at 20.00 on 23 March 2018. Our investigators left the premises at about 03.00.We will now need to assess and consider the evidence before deciding the next steps and coming to any conclusions.This is one part of a larger investigation by the ICO into the use of personal data and analytics by political campaigns, parties, social media companies and other commercial actors.
ICO commissioner Elizabeth Denham has confirmed previously that complaints related to Cambridge Analytica’s use of Facebook data for political ad targeting form part of that larger, ongoing investigation.
It opened its formal investigation into the use of data analytics for political purposes in May 2017.
This week, after saying it had failed to obtain the information it had requested from CA, the regulator applied for a warrant to enter and search CA’s offices — in the wake of reports by the New York Times and Observer of London based on interviews with former CA employee, Chris Wylie.
According to Wylie, CA used a survey app created by a Cambridge University academic to suck up data on 50M Facebook users. The intent was to use the information for political targeting purposes for the benefit of the Trump campaign.
Earlier this month Denham told a UK parliamentary committee that’s also running an investigation into fake news that she hoped to publish her review of digital political ad targeting this May. Although that was before the ICO decided it needed to apply for a warrant to raid CA’s offices.
The regulator has now said it will need time to sift through the evidence it gathered overnight — so it remains to be seen whether its wider review of political ad targeting will be delayed as a result.
the acting CEO of CA, Alexander Taylor, apologized for Facebook “data and derivatives” having been obtained without consent “from most respondents”.
But he also claimed the company believed it was acting within Facebook’s policies and UK data protection law when it licensed the data from professor Aleksandr Kogan whose survey app was the Trojan horse used to gather 270,000 Facebook users’ data and their friends’ data — resulting in some 50M profiles being harvested in ll.
“[CA] believed that the data had been obtained in line with Facebook’s terms of service and data protection laws,” writes Taylor.
*Qualcomm re-elects board of directors with tepid support
san DIEGO: Qualcomm re-elected its board of directors on Friday with weak support from shareholders, who grilled the U.S. chipmaker over its strategy following its successful defense against a $117-billion hostile bid from Broadcom Ltd.
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