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Facebook has created a ‘privacy committee’ on its board of directors as part of the company’s $5billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Members of the panel, which will be responsible for overseeing risks related to privacy and data use, were named in a financial filing on Wednesday, Business Insider … Read more
The membership of the secretive committee which has been advising the Government on its handling of coronavirus was finally made public today. The names of those who sit on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) had not previously been published on security and independence grounds. But this morning the Government bowed to mounting pressure and … Read more
Leading scientists have poured cold water on hopes the lockdown could be relaxed, warning the rate of new infections is still too high. Tacking to a containment strategy based on rigorous testing and contact tracing is widely touted as the route to easing restrictions. But the UK’s track-and-trace infrastructure would cripple under the load of daily … Read more
It is a race in which the prize could hardly be greater – the dash to find a vaccine. There will be no true exit from the coronavirus disaster without one. The runners and riders include such familiar names as GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Sanofi, Imperial College and Oxford University’s Jenner Institute. There has been … Read more
Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty says he and Sir Patrick Vallance think membership of secretive Sage committee of government’s science advisers SHOULD be made public Members of Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies has not been revealed Whitty said neither he nor Sir Patrick Vallance objected ‘in principle’ to change But told MPs he’d been advised … Read more
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that it was ‘unselfish’ of acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly to resign his post but noted he had ‘no role’ in getting rid of the official who caused a firestorm for his administration with his profanity-laced tirade to the crew of the USS Theodore Roosevelt. ‘I had no role in it,’ … Read more
Tokyo 2020 MUST be postponed warns senior Japanese Olympic Committee member Kaori Yamaguchi said Games must be delayed because athletes cannot prepare She is the first JOC board member to openly call for Games to be postponed Many major sporting events have been delayed because of the virus outbreak Coronavirus symptoms: what are they and … Read more
Get too close to snakes and chances are you’ll get bitten. It was with a certain squeamishness, then, that I plonked myself within yards of Whitehall grande fromaggios Sir Mark Sedwill and Sir John Manzoni at yesterday’s hearing in front of the public administration select committee. Sedwill and Manzoni. Sounds like a cruise liner cabaret … Read more
Olympic committee president insists cancelling or postponing Tokyo 2020 was not even discussed during key meeting today An Olympic meeting was held on Wednesday but cancellation wasn’t discussed Japan could lose more than £10billion if the Games were to be cancelled Organisers insist the Games will happen but doubts have grown in recent weeks By … Read more