New York nursing home deaths at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic may have been undercounted by as much as two-thirds, according to new federal data. Already the highest in the US, the tally likely omits thousands. The state’s official count of care home pandemic deaths – 6,600 – may […]
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On Wall Street, major stock indexes rose on Thursday evening after the Labour Department reported that jobless claims were at their lowest level since the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Asia-Pacific stocks mostly were lower on Friday morning, according to CNBC News. In China, the Shanghai Composite dropped 0.56 percent, […]
Twenty lawsuits have been combined into a unified federal legal action against short-form video app TikTok over allegedly harvesting data from users and secretly sending the information to China. Anjum Naveed/AP hide caption toggle caption Anjum Naveed/AP Twenty lawsuits have been combined into a unified federal legal action against short-form […]
Hackers are reportedly selling the personal data of over a million Russians who voted electronically, using blockchain technology, during the recent constitutional amendment process. Over 1.1 million data points were stolen and put on sale for $1.50 each on the online forums, the Russian newspaper Kommersant wrote. The data, consisting […]
The Islamic Republic has of late seen the number of COVID-19 infections skyrocket again, firmly securely first place on the list of the worst-hit nations in the Middle East. A BBC Persian service investigation, based on the government’s cited records, has found that coronavirus fatalities in Iran are almost triple what […]
On Friday, President Donald Trump threatened to ban TikTok through an executive order, leaving the popular Chinese video sharing platform scrambling to find a way to save its US market presence. US Secretary Mike Pompeo has stepped up the attack on TikTok and other Chinese software companies, claiming the video […]
Between fiery exchanges and partisan monologues, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Robert Redfield, testified on Capitol Hill on Friday that he wasn’t told until after a decision was made that hospitals would be directed to bypass his agency, sending COVID-19 data straight to another […]
An NPR investigation has identified unusual decisions around the process that lead to a Pittsburgh company winning a contract to gather COVID-19 data instead of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. smartboy10/Digital Vision Vectors/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption smartboy10/Digital Vision Vectors/Getty Images An NPR investigation has identified unusual […]
The likelihood of bitcoin challenging 2017’s record high by the end of this year may have just nudged up – but don’t raise your hopes too high just yet. Source link
Banks across Italy are using R3’s Corda blockchain to vastly speed up the process of double-checking transaction logs. Silvia Attanasio, head of innovation at the Italian Banking Association (Associazione Bancaria Italiana or ABI), said both the process of interbank reconciliation and the technology underlying the exchange of data had to […]
As millions of Americans prepare to vote in November—and in many cases, primaries and state and local elections through the summer as well—lots of people are talking about voting by mail. It is a way to protect the integrity of the country’s voting system and to limit potential exposure to […]
New federal rules for reporting data have caused confusion and delays for state officials trying to monitor the pandemic. Dr. Lee Norman, Secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, discussed the resurgence in coronavirus cases in Kansas on July 15 in Topeka. Norman called the resurgence “awful.” John […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/0a/1079842829_0:235:3182:2025_1200x675_80_0_0_6152d65d5addc1f632f207d4fb98518e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/russia/202007171079917393-russian-covid-19-vaccine-developers-say-ready-to-share-data-with-foreign-colleagues/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia’s Gamaleya Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology has produced a coronavirus vaccine that is patented and more advanced than Western competitors and will be happy to share the technology with foreign colleagues, should they require, the institute’s head, Alexander Gintsburg, […]
While the crypto wallets associated with the scam registered over 400 transactions, the attackers seem to have made away with a relatively small haul. Source link
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One of the most anticipated decisions on data protection ended with European judges ruling that US protections for the personal data of EU citizens do not conform to European privacy rules. The Court of Justice of the European Union has struck down the current mechanism for EU-US data flows on […]
CDC headquarters, Atlanta, Georgia, photo via CDC The Trump administration announced new guidelines on Wednesday. Starting today hospitals will be ordered to bypass the CDC and send ALL COVID-19 patient information to a central database in Washington DC. This comes after TGP’s Tuesday report on the likely fraudulent numbers coming […]
JERUSALEM—Israel’s unchecked resurgence of COVID-19 was propelled by the abrupt May 17 decision to reopen all schools, medical and public health officials have told The Daily Beast. “We know Israelis have terrible discipline, but now, it’s the leadership. ” — Galia Rahav, Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv The assessment […]
Ethereum developers are aspiring to launch Eth 2.0 in 2020. But that doesn’t mean all the technical details have been spelled out yet. The sum of account balances maintained by the network’s nodes – called the state – continues to grow larger and larger as applications and projects transact. Adoption […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): For American, Chinese, and South Korean companies, India makes for an important market. In the digital era, where data is the fuel for an empowered global future, several countries, including India, are becoming more and more responsible about collecting, storing, and sharing the data of their nationals […]
Today President Trump notified Congress about the US breaking ties with the now corrupt World Health Organization. Based on our prior reporting, it is easy to see why the President is taking this action. We first reported on March 17, 2020, on the controversial Ethiopian politician and Director General of […]
US video conferencing platform Zoom has joined Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Telegram in suspending data requests from Hong Kong authorities following the enactment of the new national security law. Like its tech industry contemporaries, a Zoom spokesperson said the company “supports the free and open exchange of thoughts and ideas,” […]
Ocean Protocol, a blockchain-based data-sharing platform, has completed a proof-of-concept (PoC) with Daimler, showing how the Mercedes-Benz maker can begin monetizing data streams within the company and across its supply chains. Announced Tuesday, the Singapore-based Ocean collaborated with Daimler AG to explore the decentralized sharing of internal sales and financial […]