Amazon rejects calls for ban on sales of facial recognition tech to government agencies

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ISSUE DATE: 23 May 2019 TOP STORIES Amazon rejects calls for ban on sales of facial recognition tech to government agencies Annual meeting defeats resolutions for Amazon to halt sales of its Rekognition software to government agencies, and to do more to tackle climate change. READ MORE → Police shut down Bestmixer bitcoin laundering service The Bestmixer cryptocurrency laundering service has been shut down by Dutch anti-fraud police with support from Europol after a tip off by cyber security researchers at McAfee, significantly disrupting cyber criminal money flows. READ MORE → HMRC's defence of IR35 online status checker tool likened to 'climate change denial' In an open letter addressed to chancellor Philip Hammond and HMRC's CEO Jon Thompson, the tax collection agency's defence of its IR35 online status checker tool, CEST, is likened to climate change denial, as calls grow for it to be scrapped. READ MORE → ADVERTISEMENT

IN DEPTH GoCardless migrates to cloud and gets Google engineering capability Fintech has moved from an IBM infrastructure as a service to Google’s cloud platform. READ MORE → V.Pharma swaps Data Domain for Quantum and cuts backup costs Belgian pharmacy’s Data Domains had reached end-of-life and it wanted to remain in-budget. Quantum DXi worked out a lot cheaper and easy to manage, with good support. READ MORE → EE confirms 30 May 2019 go-live date for UK 5G network Mobile operator is on course to become the first to go live with 5G in the UK, but Huawei phones will not be among its launch-day devices. READ MORE → Hundreds of European retail banks will disappear as challengers scoop up customers One in every 10 banks in Europe will no longer exist as digital challengers take customers from them. READ MORE →

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