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Most people have no plan for ‘digital death’, Which? finds
New Which? research shows most consumers have no plan for what happens to their digital accounts and online assets when they die, leaving huge risk of emails, photos and social […]
Fox launches Netflix rival Tubi, Scientists develop ‘living skin’ for robots
Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corporation is entering the UK’s highly competitive free, ad-supported video streaming market. Tubi will compete with the likes of Netflix, Disney+, ITVX and Channel 4’s streaming platform […]
Instagram forces users to watch ads, Russia ‘targeting Olympics with deepfakes’
Instagram is testing adverts that users cannot skip past. The social media platform currently allows people to swipe or scroll past adverts that appear in its main feed of images […]
EU investigates Meta over addiction concerns, shares in Reddit jump after ChatGPT deal
The European Commission has opened an investigation into the owner of Facebook and Instagram over concerns that the platforms are creating addictive behaviour among children and damaging mental health. The EU […]
Period trackers putting women at risk, Ineos tells government ‘wake up to hydrogen’
Female health monitoring apps are putting women at risk by “coercing” them into disclosing – and then poorly handling – highly sensitive data, according to new research. The study examined […]
Instagram trialing ‘sextortion’ tools, Government considers under 16 smartphone ban
Instagram will start testing new tools within weeks to fight “sextortion”, a form of blackmail involving intimate pictures sent online. The tools include “nudity protection”, which blurs naked images in […]
Meta to tackle AI fraud in EU elections, electric Renault 5 makes debut
Facebook and Instagram owner Meta says it will form a team to tackle deceptive artificial intelligence (AI) content in the upcoming EU elections in June. It is concerned by how […]
Apple pushes back EV launch date, children on TikTok for over 2 hours a day
Apple has pushed back the launch date for its long-rumoured electric vehicle and scaled back its self-driving features as the iPhone maker struggles with the shift from gadgets to cars. […]
23andMe genetic testing company hacked, Tesla whistleblower highlights self-driving concerns
The genetic testing company 23andMe has said that nearly 7 million people have been affected by a security breach that put DNA ancestry information into the hands of hackers who broke […]
1 in 3 social media GDPR fines linked to children
Over the last five years of GDPR, the most popular social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Whatsapp, and X, formerly Twitter) were fined over €2.9B for GDPR breaches, of which […]
