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The UK’s intelligence services unlawfully collected data about the public’s internet and phone use, a court has found.
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) found last week that the intelligence agencies’ use of the Telecommunications Act 1984 to harvest communications data about UK residents from phone and...
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Type “running shoes,” “best laptop” or “camping equipment” into Google from just about anywhere in the world and the top of the screen will show a carousel of ads from websites promoting products to browse and compare.Not in Turkey. Google eliminated those advertisements last...
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Teauryajya DuBenion, 29, started her stripping career in Los Angeles with the encouragement of some friends. “In Los Angeles, everyone is a stripper. Your local nurse is a stripper, teacher is a stripper, babysitter is a stripper, your dog walker is a stripper,” she...
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SAN FRANCISCO — Robinhood is known for its association with “meme stocks.” Now the stock trading app could become one.On Wednesday, Robinhood priced its initial public offering at $38 a share, according to two people with knowledge of the transaction, valuing the company at...
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Consumer watchdog Which? has called for more transparency and public outreach from NHS Digital over the scope and scale of the proposed General Practice Data for Planning and Research (GPDPR) programme, which is currently on hold pending adjustments, after having been previously postponed following pressure from...
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This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.Robinhood has made stock trading fun, cheap and appealing to young people who aren’t rich — not the crowd that the finance industry typically caters to.But the...
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Readers can now vote for who they think should be named the 2021 Most Influential Woman in UK Technology.
Many have blamed young women’s lack of interest in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) as due to a lack of role models – so Computer Weekly’s...
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The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and its Australian and US counterparts have today published an advisory highlighting the most widely exploited common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) of the year so far, and the 30 most exploited of 2020.
The three agencies said that given...
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More than 40 state attorneys general on Wednesday said they planned to appeal the dismissal of their antitrust lawsuit against Facebook, setting up a protracted legal fight to rein in the power of the Silicon Valley giant.The states would be pushing back on a...
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The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is replacing an Excel-based system for grant applications with a bespoke data management system (DMS) built by consultancy and software firm Aiimi.
BEIS has signed a one-year contract worth £900,000 to capture and securely procress Covid-19 business...
