My interview on BBC Radio Foyle about Facebook’s fact-checking operation which is launching in the UK, with the independent charity Full Fact selected to be the first British publisher to review and rate the accuracy of content on the social network. Posts, links and videos that have been flagged as false will be marked as such to users, and people will be warned if a post they are about to share has been found to be false, but no one will be stopped from sharing or reading any content, false or not.
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BBC Radio Foyle News at One – Technology Highlights from CES 2019
My interview on BBC Radio Foyle News at One where we discuss highlights from CES 2019 such as a smart voice assistant toilet unbreakable light sabers, a car which walks and the new way to take delivery of parcels.
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Time using landlines halves in five years, says Ofcom
My interview on BBC Radio Foyle on the results of an OFCOM study which shows that in the UK, we spend almost half as much time using landlines as we did six years ago. Mobile phone data demand has in the same period grown tenfold.
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DroneGate: Here’s What Really Needs To Be Done To Prevent Another Gatwick
My interview in Forbes on how to solve a problem like DroneGate which saw London’s Gatwick Airport spinning into chaos with 1,000 flights cancelled or diverted across three days starting on December 21st as a result of illegal drone activity.
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Apple shares fall after revenue warning
My interview on Highland Radio about Apple’s shares falling dramatically after its cut in forecasts. Apple is laying the blame on the economic slowdown in China.
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Browser Monoculture – Are there implications when only one remains?
My piece with Cyber Radio about Monoculture which is topical at this time in the wake of Microsoft announcing that it is making changes to its Edge Browser by adopting the Chromium open source project.
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UK government fears over Huawei network equipment
My interview on BBC World Service about the national security implications of using Huawei technology in the infrastructure for services such as 5G.
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Facebook let outside companies read its users’ private messages for years
My interview on BBC Radio Ulster about Facebook sharing the contents of users’ private messages with other companies on a scale greater than it has publicly admitted, according to leaked internal documents obtained by the New York Times.
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“God like” Google has been “weaponized” for political purposes
My comments on Infowars about how Google considered banning Breitbart from its lucrative ad network for vague, unspecified “hate speech”.
