IT Pro News in Review: Contact-tracer fined, the end of Internet Explorer, and Google improves video calls
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Welcome to IT Pro's News in Review, a weekly bitesize bulletin of the top tech stories of the week, for the week ending 21 May.
This episode:
- The ICO fines a contact tracing tech provider £8,000 for illegal use of data collected by QR code
- Microsoft finally announces a retirement date for Internet Explorer on Windows 10
- Google unveils futuristic video conferencing tech at I/O 2021
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