Child safety group says Meta ‘putting profits before protecting children’, as messaging app lowers age limit from 16Campaigners have reacted with anger to the social media company Meta lowering the minimum age for WhatsApp users from 16 to 13 in the UK and EU.The change was announced in February and came into force on Wednesday. The campaign group Smartphone Free Childhood said the move “flies in the face of the growing national demand for big tech to do more to protect our children”. Continue...
Gibraltar’s chief minister says progress made in talks about free movement across border with SpainThe UK and the EU are within “kissing distance” of a post-Brexit deal to guarantee free movement over the border between Gibraltar and Spain, Gibraltar’s chief minister has said.After a meeting between the UK foreign secretary, David Cameron, Spain’s foreign minister, José Manuel Albares, and the European Commission vice-president Maroš Šefčovič, agreement was reached on issues that have dogged...
Group tells attorney general’s department that not all doxing is harmful and therefore bad or undesirableFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAnti-fascist research group the White Rose Society has warned the Australian government that its push for new anti-doxing laws are a “quick fix” for complex problems that could be weaponised against reporting and have negative consequences for society.In March the...
What we learned over the past 10 days of hearings, which ended Friday and included testimony from politicians, bureaucrats and representatives from several security agencies.
Two months before Europeans vote in 27 countries, Moscow is accused of trying to influence the vote.
Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. Canada’s Conservative leader is taking aim at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s defence at the foreign interference public hearing yesterday. It was a closely watched testimony to see what exactly Trudeau knew about claims that China and other countries meddled in the past two general elections. Trudeau cast doubt on CSIS intelligence at the hearing but […]
Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq on Friday shrugged off BNP's anti-India campaign, saying the party is facing existence crisis. \
Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. Erin O’Toole says there was foreign meddling in the 2021 election campaign, and that Canadians should have been warned. The former Conservative leader believes his party lost five to nine seats because of misinformation campaigns. Today, the RCMP Commissioner told the inquiry that the police force has several open investigations into possible foreign interference in […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The No Labels group says it won’t field a presidential candidate in November
At least twelve men working in the UK parliament have recently been targeted by WhatsApp spear phishing messages, POLITICO reports. The targeted individuals include “a senior Labour MP, four party staffers, and a political journalist.”
The boom of artificial intelligence has spurred a regulatory frenzy across the globe — and Europe is at the forefront of the developments. Both the EU and the UK are attempting to find the elusive balance between leveraging AI’s growth and mitigating potential risks — but their approaches differ significantly. The former has opted for a hands-on, risk-based approach, whereas the latter has promised a "pro-innovation" stance. However, with news emerging that the UK government is now...
The head of Canada's spy agency is slated to face fresh questions on Friday on exactly what the federal government was told about foreign meddling.