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Your social media data is out there, just waiting to be leaked

16 May 2018

So much social media data has been siphoned off and stored in the name of research that questions over its security were only a matter of time, says Paul Marks
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Online harassment on the rise – but no one can agree what it is

11 July 2017

People in the US want more policing of online harassment, but the varying ways it affects different groups make it difficult to agree on a definition

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