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The U.S. Defense Department has added Chinese tech giant Tencent and battery manufacturer CATL to a list of companies it says are affiliated with Beijing's military.

Tencent's shares plummeted more than seven percent in Hong Kong on Tuesday, while CATL saw its shares in Shenzhen sink 5.2 percent.

Iran announced on Tuesday the lifting of access restrictions on widely used Western web platforms, including popular messaging app WhatsApp and app store Google Play.

Türkiye's data protection authority has imposed a fine of 11.5 million Turkish Liras (nearly $330,000) on Instagram's parent company Meta, citing breaches of privacy stemming from accounts operated by minors on the social media platform.

The Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Ministry has refuted reports claiming that tradesmen and shopkeepers will be required to pay a "map license fee" for sharing map or location data.

In a statement issued on Dec. 5, the ministry clarified that the proposed changes to the Law on Geographical Information Systems do not apply to small business owners.

Thousands of Facebook users in Greece and abroad have been reporting connection problems over the past hour.

The outage monitoring app downdetector said hundreds of users of Facebook and other Meta platforms, such as Instagram and Messenger, reported problems with use. Real-time monitoring shows the problems spiked and then abated.

Telegram will provide authorities with users' personal data, such as IP addresses and phone numbers, if they are involved in illegal activities and upon receiving a "valid legal request." This was confirmed by Pavel Durov, co-founder and CEO of Telegram, in a post on his channel.

The messaging app Telegram will forward to law enforcement authorities the IP addresses and phone numbers of users who violate Telegram’s usage rules, i.e. use the platform to break the law.

Marketing Greece, the association of tourism agencies and hoteliers promoting Greek tourism, said on Tuesday it had inaugurated a digital assistant on its travel platform Discovergreece.com, called Pythia.

EMC (Electronic media council) is Silent: For Another Year, the Media Bypasses the Law and Shows Preliminary Results All Day Long

For another year, the media bypasses the law and shows preliminary results throughout the day.

Bulgaria's Ministry of Internal Affairs has launched 20 new electronic administrative services, aiming to alleviate the administrative load for citizens and businesses, according to an official announcement. With this addition, the Ministry now offers a total of 74 electronic services, enhancing the application and processing of existing services.