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Technology

UK scraps plan to enforce age checks on pornography websites

The UK government has dropped plans to introduce age verification measures designed to prevent children from accessing pornography online, which had sparked concerns about privacy

News

Facebook must come clean and hand over election campaign data

Technology

Facebook must come clean and hand over election campaign data

Comment

Australia

Technology

Australia's anti-encryption law is hurting press and personal privacy

Insight

Mountain View, California, USA. 31st Jan, 2014. 23andMe is a privately held California based direct to consumer personal genetic/ancestry testing and tracking service where applicants supply, through a specially made plastic capture tube, a saliva sample

Health

Complaints about AncestryDNA and 23andme sent to UK data watchdog

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Science Museum’s Top Secret exhibition feeds spy-loving kid in us all

Culture

Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

Technology

Anonymised data isn't nearly anonymous enough – here’s how we fix it

News

Someone looking at sexual images on a computer

Technology

Thousands of pornography sites leak data to Google and Facebook

News

The hack involved personal data from around half a million customers

Technology

British Airways faces largest ever data breach fine for 2018 hack

News

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Technology

I travelled to a future where AI cameras track your every move

News

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Technology

Should you give your data to a period tracker or smart breast pump?

Health tech firms believe that women are a lucrative and untapped market, but are these products worth the privacy costs?

Insight

Technology

The psychological dark side of sharing your daily life on YouTube

Culture

Comment

Consider your child’s future before you share that ‘hilarious’ image

Comment

Technology

The UK's plan to block online pornography could be a privacy disaster

Insight

Technology

How surveillance capitalism is changing human nature forever

Culture