• A travel feature about Aix-en-Provence and the landscapes that inspired Paul Cézanne (Making an impression, 30 October, Magazine, p43) was illustrated with an image that purported to show “the centre of Aix” but was in fact a view over the rooftops of another town, Salon-de-Provence.
• In discussing new cryptographic techniques used for data security (Privacy is one of the big problems of our time. Now tech has an answer, 30 October, New Review, p22) an article mistakenly said figures from the research firm Everest Group valued the Pets (privacy-enhancing technologies) market at “$2bn last year” growing to “$50bn by 2026”; these were figures for the confidential computing market, which is different.
• The 1936 Olympics were held in Berlin, not Munich as a leading article stated (We’re paying a high price for this World Cup, 30 October, p40).
• A column was right to say that the US Communications Decency Act was passed in 1996, but wrong to say this was “more than half a century ago” (The US supreme court case that could bring the tech giants to their knees, 23 October, New Review, p23).
Other recently amended articles include:
Will plunging shares end big tech’s era of ‘pornographic’ profits?
Revealed: TE Lawrence felt ‘bitter shame’ over UK’s false promises of Arab self rule
Sadiq Khan calls for rent freeze as rough sleeping rises by a fifth in London
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