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January 15, 2021 / Last updated : January 15, 2021 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Sky News: Home secretary told to ‘get a grip’ after 150,000 police records wiped

Sky News: Home secretary told to ‘get a grip’ after 150,000 police records wiped . “Home Secretary Priti Patel has been told to ‘get a grip’ after 150,000 fingerprint, DNA and arrest history records were accidentally wiped from police databases. Critics have seized on the mass information loss, warning it would not make the streets […]

January 11, 2021 / Last updated : January 11, 2021 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Gizmodo: Google’s Plan To Quash Cookies Draws Scrutiny From Regulators

Gizmodo: Google’s Plan To Quash Cookies Draws Scrutiny From Regulators. “On Friday, UK’s antitrust authority announced a new investigation into Google’s plan to end support for third party cookies in Chrome. The probe, it explained, is meant to determine whether the change ‘could cause advertising spend to become even more concentrated on Google’s ecosystem,’ potentially […]

January 11, 2021 / Last updated : January 11, 2021 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Covid: ‘Most dangerous time’ of the pandemic, says Prof Whitty (BBC)

BBC: Covid: ‘Most dangerous time’ of the pandemic, says Prof Whitty. “The UK will go through the ‘most dangerous time’ of the pandemic in the weeks before vaccine rollout has an impact, England’s chief medical officer has warned. Prof Chris Whitty urged people to minimise all unnecessary contact with others. The next few weeks will […]

December 28, 2020 / Last updated : December 28, 2020 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

CNN: Every investor in Britain’s slave trade set to be detailed in new ‘dictionary’ after funding from UK government

CNN: Every investor in Britain’s slave trade set to be detailed in new ‘dictionary’ after funding from UK government. “The first ever index of investors in Britain’s extensive slave trade is being compiled by academics, after the project received £1 million ($1.4 million) in funding from the UK government. The Dictionary of British Slave Traders […]

December 28, 2020 / Last updated : December 28, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Covid-19: Hospitals under pressure as coronavirus cases rise (BBC)

BBC: Covid-19: Hospitals under pressure as coronavirus cases rise. “Hospitals in the south of England say they have seen a ‘real rise in pressure’ as the number of Covid patients needing treatment increases. Saturday was described as one of London Ambulance Service’s busiest in history amid the rapid spread of a new variant. The service […]

December 23, 2020 / Last updated : December 23, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

BBC: UK has two cases of variant linked to South Africa

BBC: UK has two cases of variant linked to South Africa. “The UK has detected two cases of another new variant of coronavirus, the health secretary Matt Hancock says. The cases in London and north west England are contacts of people who travelled to South Africa, where the variant was discovered. Travel restrictions with South […]

December 20, 2020 / Last updated : December 20, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Covid: Belgium and Netherlands ban flights from UK over variant (BBC)

BBC: Covid: Belgium and Netherlands ban flights from UK over variant. “A number of European countries have or are considering banning travel from the UK to prevent the spread of a more infectious variant of coronavirus. Both the Netherlands and Belgium have suspended flights. Trains to Belgium have also been banned. Germany and France are […]

December 11, 2020 / Last updated : December 11, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Covid: Trials to test combination of Oxford and Sputnik vaccines (BBC)

BBC: Covid: Trials to test combination of Oxford and Sputnik vaccines. “UK and Russian scientists are teaming up to trial a combination of the Oxford-AstraZeneca and Sputnik V vaccines to see if protection against Covid-19 can be improved. Mixing two similar vaccines could lead to a better immune response in people. The trials, to be […]

December 5, 2020 / Last updated : December 5, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Jamaica flight: Prisoner tests positive for Covid-19 (BBC)

BBC: Jamaica flight: Prisoner tests positive for Covid-19. “One of the 13 prisoners deported from the UK to Jamaica on Wednesday has tested positive for Covid-19, the Jamaican government has told the BBC. The man is being held in isolation at a hospital in the capital, Kingston. The Home Office said he was on the […]

December 2, 2020 / Last updated : December 2, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Reuters: UK police arrest 155 in anti-lockdown protests in London

Reuters: UK police arrest 155 in anti-lockdown protests in London. “Police in London said on Saturday that they had made 155 arrests as they tried to break up anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine protests. The police said the arrests had been made for different offences including assaulting a police officer, possession of drugs and breaching coronavirus restrictions. […]

December 2, 2020 / Last updated : December 2, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Coronavirus: New Covid tier system comes into force in England (BBC)

BBC: Coronavirus: New Covid tier system comes into force in England. “England has returned to a tiered system of coronavirus restrictions after its second national lockdown ended. The tougher new system has come into force hours after being approved by MPs in a Commons vote.”

December 1, 2020 / Last updated : December 1, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

New York Times: Britain Set to Leap Ahead in Approving Vaccines

New York Times: Britain Set to Leap Ahead in Approving Vaccines. “Britain asked its drug regulator on Friday to consider AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine for emergency approval, forging ahead in the face of considerable uncertainty about the vaccine’s effectiveness as the government tries to corral a pandemic that has killed more than 66,000 people in the […]

November 28, 2020 / Last updated : November 28, 2020 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

Neowin: UK government sets less ambitious gigabit broadband goal

Neowin: UK government sets less ambitious gigabit broadband goal. “The UK’s Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has announced that the country’s original plan to bring gigabit broadband to every home in the country by 2025 has been scaled back so that the technology will be available in 85% of residences. While those in towns and cities around […]

November 28, 2020 / Last updated : November 28, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

The Register: UK coronavirus tier postcode-searching tool yanked offline as desperate Britons hunt for latest lockdown details

The Register: UK coronavirus tier postcode-searching tool yanked offline as desperate Britons hunt for latest lockdown details. “The gov.uk postcode-searching tool for Britons to find out what level of coronavirus lockdown they’ll be in until Christmas has crashed on launch and been withdrawn. Arriving [Thursday] morning as part of the government’s scheme to partially lift […]

November 27, 2020 / Last updated : November 27, 2020 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

The Guardian: New UK tech regulator to limit power of Google and Facebook

The Guardian: New UK tech regulator to limit power of Google and Facebook. “Under the plans, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will gain a dedicated Digital Markets Unit, empowered to write and enforce a new code of practice on technology companies which will set out the limits of acceptable behaviour.”

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