Letters

Bahrain International Circuit (BIC), ‘The Home of Motorsport in the Middle East’, is offering race fans a chance to win valuable prizes, including tickets to this year’s Formula 1 2018 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix.

BIC has put together an exciting ‘Escape and Win’ experience, which challenges participants to flee from a locked room by solving a series of puzzles in no more than 10 minutes.

All those who complete the task will be entered in a raffle for a chance to take home some valuable prizes. These include Bahrain Grand Prix tickets, official Formula 1 teams and BIC merchandise, coupons to enjoy BIC experiences and much more.

The ‘Escape and Win’ challenge takes place in a truck which will be visiting various locations around the island within the next week. These locations include Seef area, various schools in Isa Town, Adliya 338, the Lagoon at Amwaj Islands, Khalifa bin Salman Park, Al Fateh Corniche and Dohat Arad, to name a few.

Fans are invited to follow BIC’s Instagram account, @bah_int_circuit, for updates on locations and timings.

Media at BIC.

Editor’s note: Race weekend events: Page 10 and F1 latest: Pages 22 & 23

I enjoy your new FinTech Focus page as I’ve heard so much about the industry but didn’t quite understand what it’s all about. This section of GulfWeekly will help guide us dinosaurs!

As a result, I’ve signed up for the bWallet and I’m enjoying some of the incentives offered. However, it’s clearly a work in progress as using my smart phone app to pay for a coffee takes longer than putting my hand in my pocket and using cash.

But speed up the transaction and I think they’re on to a winner.

Older tech admirer, Manama.

FinTech Focus: Page 7

As an avid Facebook user I’ve been watching the TV news with interest over the scandal facing the social media giant.

As I understand it now, an analytics company, based in the UK, gained access to data on as many as 50 million Facebook profiles thanks to generous data-sharing policies Facebook app developers enjoyed back in 2014.

This data, which was sold to Cambridge Analytica against Facebook’s terms of service, reportedly informed the firm’s election ad targeting toolset used by the campaign of US President Donald Trump and others.

It took some time coming but CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologised and said the company had already stopped third-party apps from getting so much information.

I’m not really interested in apologies … I’d rather take a cut of the profits made from my information being passed on without my permission.

Some of those bitcoins will do.

Johnathan Simpson, Saar.