Facebook’s latest commitment to user privacy is underwhelming to say the least Ina statement released yesterday, Facebook announced a new way for social media users to view and control their off-Facebook activity. The new Off-Facebook Activity tool will let people see a summary of the apps and websites that send Facebook information about things they are looking … Continue reading Facebook Lets Users Control Data Shared By Apps And Websites
Puberty is a minefield but the online community helped me come to terms with my sexuality Growing up, I was a massive tomboy. I wore boys clothes, I wrestled my four younger brothers, I read fantasy novels marketed at boys such as Alex Rider and Artemis Fowl and I played PC Games such as The Hobbit and various Harry Potter titles. My younger … Continue reading The Internet Helped Me Realise I Am Bi
The Cambridge Analytica scandal was an inevitable consequence of human egotism In Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2003, Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg created an online programme called ‘Facemash’, which allowed users to compare photos of fellow students’ faces and select the one they found more attractive. The programme spread quickly amongst his peers at the university, for … Continue reading Vanity Is At The Root Of Our Global Data Problem
At this point are we even surprised at the ways the platform has breached users’ privacy? In the last 24 hours, Bloomberg and the BBC reported that hundreds of workers were paid to transcribe voice recordings of Facebook users. Facebook, which was fined $5bn by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for its role Cambridge Analytica privacy violations, is … Continue reading Facebook Workers Were Paid To Transcribe User Voice Recordings
Fake news is being wilfully disseminated by a substantial minority of the population and this is a huge threat to the democratic process. It’s no secret that fake news is making it harder for people to keep up with current affairs. According to a Pew Research study, about two-thirds of Americans said doctored videos and … Continue reading The Deliberate Dissemination of Fake News Is A Democratic Threat
Conservative mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey claims he has the street skills to tackle crime in London because of his upbringing and youth work experience. He dealt with criminals working as a youth worker for 25 years, and also witnessed criminal activity such as drug use while growing up in Ladbroke Grove. Mr Bailey said that … Continue reading Conservative mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey says to London criminals: “It’s you and me, bro”
Conservative London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey claims his proposed taxpayer-owned housebuilder organisation would help more young people in the capital to buy their own home. Mr Bailey announced his plans for Housing for London on July 17. He claimed it would be a City Hall-controlled body that would build more affordable homes than the 116,000 … Continue reading I’ll help more young Londoners buy their own home, vows mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey
I really tried to avoid the never ending stream of tweets on my timeline obsessing about Conversations With Friends. I already fell victim to the online chatter about the profundity of Anna Burns’ 2018 Man Booker Prize winning novel, Milkman. The prose was so dense it was like trying to read treacle, and I gave up a mere … Continue reading Book Review: Conversations With Friends // Sally Rooney
Ducks Unlimited are Toronto’s answer to music fans who are missing Noah and the Whale this summer Canadian outfit Ducks Unlimited’s jangle pop track ‘Get Bleak’ works on a fairly simplistic, repetitive melody which quickly becomes a little catchy earworm. The premise of the song is about the idea that moving somewhere else is going to … Continue reading Song Of The Week: Get Bleak // Ducks Unlimited
cancelled my Amazon Prime membership today. The second that I clicked through the seemingly never-ending chain of cancellation options I felt a tidal wave of relief. The service costs £79 a year for those living in the UK and $199 in the US (with discounts available to students or those with an EBT or Medicaid … Continue reading I’m Relieved I Cancelled My Amazon Prime Membership
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