12 h. ago Ofcom urges tech firms to tackle toxic online abuse of women

The regulator says the digital world is ‘not serving women and girls the way it should’

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12 h. ago Ofcom urges tech firms to step up to protect women and girls online

The watchdog has published new guidance but some organisations have said it must be made mandatory.

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27 h. ago One in four unconcerned by sexual deepfakes created without consent, survey finds

Senior UK police officer says AI is accelerating violence against women and girls and that technology companies are complicitOne in four people think there is nothing wrong with creating and sharing sexual deepfakes, or they feel neutral about it, even when the person depicted has not consented, according to a police-commissioned survey.The findings prompted a senior police officer to warn that the use of AI is accelerating an epidemic in violence against women and girls (VAWG), and that technology companies are complicit in this abuse. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Digital violence is 'spreading at alarming speed' as millions of women face online abuse

A new report from UN Women has found that digital violence is intensifying, yet nearly half of the world's women and girls lack legal protection from digital abuse

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5 d. ago Charity Commission sparks fury by refusing to take action against Muslim group which banned women and girls from taking part in charity fun run

The Charity Commission will not investigate the East London Mosque Trust as it claims there is 'no evidence' that the charity is not operating for the 'public benefit'.

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5 d. ago European Commission accused of ‘massive rollback’ of digital protections

Proposed changes to AI Act would make it easier for tech firms to use personal data to train models without consentThe European Commission has been accused of “a massive rollback” of the EU’s digital rules after announcing proposals to delay central parts of the Artificial Intelligence Act and water down its landmark data protection regulation.If agreed, the changes would make it easier for tech firms to use personal data to train AI models without asking for consent, and try to end “cookie banner fatigue” by reducing the number times internet users have to give their permission to being tracked on the internet. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Hotel migrant ‘sexually assaulted four women and girls as young as 12 in spate of sex attacks on Tube’

A HOTEL migrant sexually assaulted four women and girls as young as 12 on the Tube in a spate of alleged attacks, a court heard. Hamza Alotaibi, 27, is accused of targeting the alleged victims within the space of a month on various London Underground trains. He was living in a taxpayer-funded asylum hotel in...

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5 d. ago HP is seeking £1.35billion from Mike Lynch's estate more than a year after the tech tycoon died alongside six others in super yacht sinking

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HP) wants the 10-figure sum from Lynch's estate over their acquisition of his tech firm, Autonomy, lawyers told a High Court on Tuesday.

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6 d. ago HP is seeking £1.5billion from Mike Lynch's estate more than a year after the tech tycoon died alongside six others in super yacht sinking

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HP) wants the 10-figure sum from Lynch's estate over their acquisition of his tech firm, Autonomy, lawyers told a High Court on Tuesday.

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6 d. ago It's now clear to me exactly where Reeves will strike in the Budget

It's clear now that the Chancellor is a mere puppet whose strings are being pulled by backbenchers more Left-wing than Jeremy Corbyn ever was.

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8 d. ago Kaya Scodelario: ‘I felt more like an adult when I was 14 than I do now’

The British-Brazilian star of 'The Gentleman' and 'Skins' has to grow up the hard way in her new film ‘Adulthood’. She speaks with Annabel Nugent about playing perennial cool girl Effy Stonem, protecting young women on set, and why watching ‘Euphoria’ gives her anxiety

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1 week ago I've been writing about October 7 rape horrors since day one. These new accounts of sex assaults on men, women and girls expose even greater depths of Hamas's depravity, writes NATALIE LISBONA

I have spoken to traumatised survivors of Nova who told me that while they were in hiding in bushes or playing dead, they heard women being raped.

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1 week ago Father of teen whose death was linked to social media has ‘lost faith’ in Ofcom

Ian Russell says watchdog lacks ‘urgency’ and is not willing to use its powers ‘to the extent required’ The father of Molly Russell, a British teenager who killed herself after viewing harmful online content, has called for a change in leadership at the UK’s communications watchdog after losing faith in its ability to make the internet safer for children.Ian Russell, whose 14 year-old daughter took her own life in 2017, said Ofcom had “repeatedly” demonstrated that it does not grasp the urgency of keeping under-18s safe online and was failing to implement new digital laws forcefully. Continue reading...

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1 week ago The real culprit in the Masculinity Crisis. I've seen first hand the difference between today's girls and boys. And no, women aren't to blame

Young men now spend more of their free time alone than any other group, have fewer close friends than ever before, and are disproportionately more likely to commit suicide.

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1 week ago 'I'm an expert and if you have a garden you must do this before Storm Claudia batters UK today'

Storm Claudia is set to batter the UK today and the wind and rain can cause major damage to gardens — one expert has recommended a simple step to protect outdoor spaces.

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1 week ago Inside the viral ‘Muscle Girls’ bar where you can be served by strong women

A fee of 6,000 yen for 80 minutes covers a protein drink and a stage show from muscle-toned staff

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1 week ago Serial killer murdered over 50 people and left twisted photo for victim's dad

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Robert Ben Rhoades, known as the 'Truck Stop Killer', murdered more than 50 women and girls in a horrifying campaign of torture and sexual assault

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1 week ago Scottish tech firm’s knowhow will aid motorist safety in UK’s longest road tunnels

“It is a very proud moment to see the system go live and have a positive impact on emergency services and motorists” – Tom Sime, Exchange Communications

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1 week ago African countries boost family planning funding in ‘shift from dependency’ after aid cuts

Zambia, Zimbabwe and DRC take steps to protect decades of progress in reproductive health, as donor fatigue leads to steep cuts in aidAfrican governments are boosting funding for family planning programmes as cuts in foreign aid threaten decades of reproductive health progress and access to birth control for millions of women and girls.Zambia, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are the latest countries to announce increased budgets for family planning supplies and services. Continue reading...

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1 week ago The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power | Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles

The GDPR is Europe’s defence against digital oligarchy, child harm and foreign political interference. Deregulation plans are misguidedEurope is hurtling toward digital vassalage. Under Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, EU laws to tackle tech giants have been either not applied or delayed, for fear of offending Donald Trump. Now leaked documents reveal that the European Commission plans to gut a central part of Europe’s digital rulebook. This will hurt Europe’s innovators and hand the future of Europe’s tech sovereignty to US firms.Once Europe’s most hyped law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now on the chopping block. Powerful forces within the European Commission, supported by the German government, hope that deregulation will boost Europe’s tech sector, particularly AI. This is a grave mistake.Johnny Ryan is director of Enforce, a unit of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties. Georg Riekeles is the associate director of the European Policy ...

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