When Florida-based Chetu hired a telemarketer in the Netherlands, the company demanded the employee turn on his webcam. The employee wasn’t happy with being monitored “for 9 hours per day,” in a program that included screen-sharing and streaming his webcam. When he refused, he was fired..

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An advert- and tracker-free search engine launches in the UK, France and Germany on Thursday.

Neeva has 600,000 users in the US, where it launched last year.

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A woman has revealed how she caught her unfaithful ex-partner cheating thanks to recordings found on her Amazon speaker - a function she had no idea existed until she started her investigation.

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Earlier this month, ex-BBC presenter Alex Belfield was jailed for stalking and harassment.One striking aspect of the case was that he was given leave by the judge to file social media updates reporting on his own trial.

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Clear guidance from Browne Jacobson law firm.

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Facebook stores most user information in plaintext on its servers, meaning the company can access it if it is compelled to do so with a warrant. The company routinely complies with law enforcement requests.

“Nothing in the valid warrants we received from local law enforcement in early June, prior to the Supreme Court decision, mentioned abortion," Meta, the company that owns Facebook said in a statement Tuesday evening.

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