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‘Amazon not providing data security’

Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc doesn’t provide enough data security for sellers sending emails on its marketplace platform, according to a complaint filed by Noyb, a group created by Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems. Emails are routed through Amazon servers that in some cases fail to provide so-called TLS encryption, which is a standard safety practice, according to the complaint, which was ...

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EU leaders fail to strike budget deal in aftermath of Brexit

Bloomberg European Union (EU) leaders failed to clinch a deal on its next long-term budget as deep divisions over spending bubbled up in the aftermath of Brexit. After a 28-hour extraordinary summit in Brussels, they conceded it was impossible to nail down a seven-year spending plan and will have to reconvene sometime before the end-2020 deadline. “Unfortunately today we’ve observed ...

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Big data won’t save you from the coronavirus

How often do you see a piece of economic or financial information revised upward by 45%? And how reliable would you regard a data set that’s subject to such adjustments? This is the problem confronting epidemiologists trying to make sense of the novel coronavirus spreading from China’s Hubei province. On February 13, the tally there surged by 45% — or ...

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