A study conducted jointly by the University of Adelaide and the University of Vermont claims that the behaviour of an individual can be predicted using social media data from eight or nine of their friends.

Automated vehicle technology will be tested in rural Victoria this year, with the State Government awarding Bosch $2.3 million from the Connected and Automated Vehicle Trial Grants Program and granting it the state’s first Automated Driving System permit for on-road testing of highly automated driving systems.

Telecommunications provider Pivotel has congratulated Iridium Communications on the commercial launch of its Iridium Certus broadband service, enabled by the company's new $3 billion Iridium NEXT satellite constellation.

A little more than a fifth of the Australian companies surveyed are confident about their Internet security, a study by the business process services provider Accenture has found, with the global figure being 30%.

Google has been hit with a €50 million fine by the French National Data Protection Commission (CNIL) for violations of the GDPR following complaints by the associations None Of Your Business and La Quadrature du Net, the latter representing 10,000 people.

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