Every minute of every day, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are logging the movements of tens of millions of people with mobile phones and storing the information in gigantic data files.
'Eva Blum-Dumontet, a senior researcher at Privacy International, which obtained the contract, said the issue with the partnership was not about “data sharing” but about “transparency”. Several sections have been redacted by the Department of Health and Social Care to protect Amazon’s commercial interests.'
TikTok has admitted censoring posts by users it identified as disabled, fat or LGBTQ+ as part of a misguided effort to cut down on bullying on the platform.
Adam Parker's boyfriend Dean Eastmond died from cancer at the age of 21 in September 2017. They'd been dating for two years.
The couple first spoke on Twitter when Adam sent a message to Dean to tell him how cute a photo of his cat was.
And since Dean's death, Adam has used his boyfriend's tweets to remember him.
"Grief is complex, strange and it works in different ways," the 25-year-old tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.
'She was the only one to be prosecuted of the 17 people who received the child abuse video.'
There is a lot to think about here. Those of us who work with young people are held to account perhaps more severely than 'other' adults.
A senior police officer convicted of possessing a child abuse video on her phone has been told she faces "immense" career consequences.
A court heard Novlett Robyn Williams failed to report her sister for sending the "disturbing" clip last year.
While jurors at the Old Bailey accepted Williams did not view the material, they rejected her claim she was unaware of its presence on her phone.
Identity theft is at an all-time high in the UK. The UK's fraud prevention service CIFAS recorded 190,000 cases in the past year, as our increasingly digitised lives make it easier than ever for fraudsters to get their hands on our personal information.
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