The Unfiltered Lens

The South Korean privacy watchdog (PIPC) has imposed an ridiculously low fine on Facebook for providing users' personal information to companies. According to the data protector, the data of at least 3.3 million local Facebook users would…

The upcoming American president Joe Biden will announce the first names of his intended ministers next week. That's what his chief of staff Ron Klain announced on Sunday's national network ABC. The first name to be highlighted is that of…

Shell will soon gradually close its refinery in Convent in the U.S. State of Louisiana. Earlier this month, the oil and gas group announced their intention to close the site after no oil was found for the refinery. According to Shell, no…

The Hong Kong pro-Democratic activist Joshua Wong said in court on Monday that he was guilty of organising and participating in a forbidden protest. He was immediately detained. On 2 December the judge will decide his fate. Wong could get…

There is a little proof of everything you see. So why not to label every post as 'unproven'?

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefit last week has risen unexpectedly. The U.S. Department of Labor reported 742,000 new applications, against a revised number of 711,000 a week earlier. Economists, on the whole, took…

Authorities of Phoenix city in the state of Arizona have given the go-ahead for the construction of a large chip factory by Taiwanese TSMC worth $ 12 billion. Phoenix is contributing $ 200 million to the development of necessary…

The arrangement of the German chemical group Bayer with 2,500 American cities in a case on environmental pollution with the chemical polychlorinated biphenyl, also known as PCBs, is in doubt. A number of US states are concerned about a…