The UK’s data protection watchdog has warned that retailers can track every move of their customers using their phones and target them using facial recognition software.

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Vast amounts of personal, behavioural and academic data about children are being collected, processed and used by schools, local authorities, and the government every year.

But a recent review by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK of 50 websites and apps used by children found that only a third had “effective controls in place to limit the collection of personal information from children”.

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New TV ad by getsafeonline.org reminding people not to be tricked by fraudsters.

Employers can read workers' private messages sent via chat software and webmail accounts during working hours, judges have ruled.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said a firm that read a worker's Yahoo Messenger chats sent while he was at work was within its rights.

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Banning mobile phones and other technology in the classroom is 'moving in the wrong direction.' an academic has said, as he warns children will keep using technology anyway.

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After a man was sacked from his job for sending an abusive message, a feminist blogger found herself on the receiving end of a wave of abuse. So why do many hard core internet trolls target women, and feminists in particular?

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