Laurie Chen / Reuters: At the National People’s Congress in Beijing, Tencent CEO Pony Ma and other executives were absent, as China boosts representation from its tech hardware sector  —  Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) founder Pony Ma and others from China’s crackdown-hit internet sector will be absent … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Keith Zhai / Wall Street Journal: Sources: China plans to create an agency to manage the country’s data stores, shifting from multiple ministries to streamline security and regulatory practices  —  Beijing’s plan to streamline regulatory structure would bring all data-related issues under a single agency Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: The EU says Meta agreed to improve transparency over WhatsApp’s 2021 privacy policy changes, letting users reject the changes and saying user data is not shared  —  Meta Platforms’ (META.O) WhatsApp has agreed to be more transparent about changes to its privacy policy introduced in 2021 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andy Greenberg / Wired: A look at the AI Objectives Institute, founded by late privacy and tech luminary Peter Eckersley, meant to guide AI’s evolution to safeguard humanity’s future  —  Peter Eckersley did groundbreaking work to encrypt the web.  After his sudden death, a new organization he founded is carrying … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Associated Press: German police, Europol, the FBI, and Ukrainian police disrupt a ransomware gang that deployed DoppelPaymer; Europol says US victims paid €40M+ from 2019 to 2021  —  German police said Monday that they have disrupted an international cybercrime gang which has been blackmailing large companies … Lees verder op Tech Meme