July 17, 2018

Welcome again to your regular dose of all things Techtastic. This week, we bring you news of a radical libertarian’s worrying – and successful – case against the US Department of Justice, Microsoft’s call for more regulation of face-recognition technologies, flip-flopping by Facebook over fake news, Uber’s new continuous driver background monitoring technology, and PayPal’s surprising treatment of a dead user. Yes, really.

All in all, we have to admit to feeling a bit bleak about things this week, in fact, it’s all a bit Techdrastic. But you need to be up to date and on the button, so read on, read on…