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Facebook has been working on adding End-to-End Encryption (EEE) to its services since 2019, but in a recent blog post, the company revealed that the privacy feature will not be arriving any time soon. In a blog post talking about Facebook’s Safety and Security plans , the company revealed support for EEE will not arrive until 2022 at the earliest. While we expect to make more progress on default end-to-end encryption for Messenger and Instagram Direct this year, it’s a long-term project and we won’t be fully end-to-end encrypted until sometime in 2022 at the earliest. Moreover, the safety features we’ve already introduced are designed to work with end-to-end encryption, and we plan to continue building strong safety features into our services. This is somewhat worrying since Facebook is intent on unifying their WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Instagram Direct messaging service, and WhatsApp already offers EEE by default. Hopefully, this means Facebook will delay the integration rather...

While US lawmakers muddle through yet another congressional hearing on the  dangers posed by algorithmic bias  in social media, the European Commission (basically the executive branch of the EU) has unveiled a sweeping regulatory framework that, if adopted, could have global implications for the future of AI development. This isn’t the Commission’s first attempt at guiding the growth and evolution of this emerging technology. After extensive meetings with advocate groups and other stakeholders, the EC released both the first  European Strategy on AI  and  Coordinated Plan on AI  in 2018. Those were followed in 2019 by the  Guidelines for Trustworthy AI , then again in 2020 by the Commission’s  White Paper on AI  and  Report on the safety and liability implications of Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things and robotics . Just as with its ambitious General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) plan in 2018, the Commission is seeking...

  Scottish high-tech firm pureLiFi has announced a multi-million dollar deal to supply the US military with an optical wireless communication system. The Kitefin li-fi system harnesses the light spectrum rather than radio frequencies to transmit data securely. The deal with the United States Army Europe and Africa is the world's first large-scale deployment of li-fi technology, according to the company. PureLifi said $4.2m (£3m) had been invested in the deployment. Li-fi - short for "light fidelity" - is an emerging technology first developed in Edinburgh. The term was coined by Prof Harald Haas from the University of Edinburgh, who In 2011 demonstrated how an LED bulb equipped with signal processing technology could stream a high-definition video to a computer. ·          'Li-fi 100 times faster than wi-fi' ·          Could Li-Fi be the new Wi-Fi? According to pureLifi, while radio freq...