The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has imposed a fine of € 450 thousand on the American microblogging service Twitter, whose European headquarters is registered in Ireland. The fine was imposed for violation of the European Data Protection Law (GDPR), which came into force in 2018. In January 2019, Twitter announced that it had fixed an issue that could have caused private tweets from...

The electoral vote has confirmed the election of Joseph Biden as president of the United States. The results of the state-by-state vote show this. The Democratic candidate has secured the support of all 55 electors from California, thus gaining more than the 270 votes needed to be elected. Of the 538 votes, Biden already gets 302, while the incumbent Republican candidate Donald Trump gets 232....

Germany will close non-grocery stores and service businesses from December 16 to January 10. The country is tightening quarantine, which has already been in effect in the country for more than a month, to cope with the rise in the incidence of coronavirus. The German government, in agreement with the federal states, will tighten quarantine from December 16 due to coronavirus. This follows from...

David Beasley, Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme, while accepting the Nobel Peace Prize for the organization, called on the world to use its wealth to fight hunger. He said "because of multiple wars, climate change, the widespread use of hunger as a political and military weapon, and a pandemic that makes all these problems several times worse, 270 million people are at risk of...

On Tuesday, Danish Saxo Bank published its traditional Outrageous Predictions for the next year. Saxo Bank describes its 10 'shocking predictions' as a 'series of unlikely and underestimated events which, however, could cause financial markets to be hit by a very powerful shock wave'.  According to Saxo Bank, the retreat of the coronavirus due to mass vaccination in 2021 will dramatically...

The UK will give up the most controversial provisions of the Internal Market Bill after it has reached agreements in principle with the EU on issues relating to the status of Northern Ireland, said Michael Gove, Cabinet Office Minister. The Internal Market Bill, introduced into Parliament by the government, is designed to regulate trade between four parts of the United Kingdom after the end of...

Coronavirus COVID-19 vaccination will start this week, said US President Donald Trump while speaking to his supporters in Georgia. "They will start next week, we will start vaccinating," said Mr. Trump. Earlier, the American company Moderna, as well as Pfizer, together with BioNTech, submitted applications to the US regulator to use their vaccine in the country. During his speech in Georgia,...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) does not recommend issuing immunity passports to coronavirus patients. At the same time, WHO is considering the possibility of introducing electronic certificates of vaccination against COVID-19 for foreign travel. "We are carefully examining the possibility of using technology to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.  This also applies to cooperation with...

Unilever is testing a four-day working week in New Zealand. Employees' salaries will not change, nor will their workload: they will simply have to do their tasks in less time. One of the largest manufacturers of consumer goods Unilever will temporarily transfer its employees in New Zealand to a four-day working week, Reuters reported citing a statement from the company. As part of the...