according to ofcom, more than half of parents in scotland worry about companies collecting informationnline pressure to spend money. did anything in particular strike you? i do think that online advertising can be quite subtle. also i think there's an element of them being influenced by what they watch, even if they're not aware that they are being advertised to. i suppose i've tried to explain to the girls that not everything is as it seems on the internet, and what i've seen today, what i've learnt today, ithink i maybe need to pay that even more attention. and were you aware that by the time a child turns 13 years old, 72 million data points have been collected on them? no, and that's shocking. i just don't think that children should be in that category. i don't think it should be allowed. you know, if i sign up for something, i agree to the terms and conditions, and that is fair enough. even if i don't read them thoroughly, i'm signing up to them. whereas children aren't doing that. they're not able to make those kinds of decisions. to be perfectly honest, i don't tend to read, let

one third of users have seen hateful material on the site, ofcom says.ages forfailing to stop a black worker who no longer works for the company from being abused. a federal court in san francisco found a lift employee i worked as a former lift operator five years ago was subjected to a racially hostile environment. tesla disputed the verdict and says it was not perfect. fake insurance claims fell by a tent insurance claims fell by a tent in the uk last year, due to close our business premises. general insurers identified 96,000 fraudulent claims in 2020, the lowest number since 2007, according to the latest data from the association of british insurers. the european energy crisis just got worse, with prices for gas soaring, following renewed fears from traders over supplies of the fuel critical for heating and electricity generation ahead of the wintel. in the uk, record wholesale prices of pushed ten energy applies to collapse so far since the beginning of august with further supply of failures expected in the next few weeks and consumers are bracing t

what we will be doing it ofcom, this is _ punishments? regime and l punishments? what we will be doing it ofcom, this is a new regime and i | it 0fcom, this is a new regime and i should say, we think, this is the first in the world to be doing this because the government moved really fast last year to put this system in place so we are up and running before any country in europe, other countries will be following us in the years to come, and because this is now in law, it means 0fcom will be going in and talking to every platform under our remit now about what systems and processes they have got in place and we will be asking them to have questions about whether or not those are adequate for the task, given the number of young people many of the platforms have on their sites. we will be publishing a really big report on this next year which will be the first of its kind that looks across the whole system and, if we see there are problems, we have the ability to fine companies and to take other steps to come you know, make sure that they d

media regulator ofcom said it would take appropriate measures to protect users of sites like tiktok, boldly go where some people have gone before. yes, star trek�*s captain kirk is set to journey into space next week with jeff bezos�* blue origin. it was also the week that — and you may have noticed this — whatsapp, facebook and instagram were all down for about six hours on monday, affecting over 3.5 billion people. this was apparently caused by configuration changes on the backbone routers. ah! of course! and twitter got a lot of love during that time. this was all during the same week the facebook whistle—blower revealed herself. former employee frances haugen testified at an internet safety hearing on capitol hill, saying the social network harms children's mental health, stokes division and damages democracy. facebook has rejected haugen�*s claims. and finally, we may never lose the tv remote again. researchers at mit have created rfusion, a robotic arm that retrieves objects. with an on—board camera and antenna, it can recognise lost items both by look and by the attached rfid

the watchdog ofcom says the move is intended to stop millions of scam calls made by criminals based abroade criticised by the national crime agency for failing to tackle a huge rise in scam calls and texts over the past year. the soft drinks industry produces a70 billion plastic bottles every year, designed to be used just once and then thrown away. around a quarter of them are made by one company — coca—cola. nearly four years ago, facing growing criticism, coke came up with a plan to tackle their plastic pollution problem. but an investigation by bbc panorama reveals that they are struggling to make the progress required to meet their promises. and in some places, particularly in some of the world s poorer nations, things are getting much worse. our correspondent sofia bettiza has the story. here is a refreshment you can enjoy quickly and conveniently. in the 1950s, coca—cola was sold in glass bottles. the company would collect them, wash them and reuse them. these lighter plastic bottles take lbs off your shopping load. by the 70s, coke was promoting plastic. single use plastic is a mas

things like disinformation and this will be enforced by ofcom which has the power to fine companies up i think that could be about £8,000,000,000. what ha--ens about £8,000,000,000. what ha ens if about £8,ooo,ooo,ooo. what happens if one _ about £8,000,000,000. what happens if one country - about £8,000,000,000. what happens if one country imposes a law on a social idiot cocktail and then a different country, how does it impact on the social media company if this is what happens for the likes of facebook? tt’s likes of facebook? it's perfectly _ likes of facebook? it's perfectly possible - likes of facebook? tt�*s perfectly possible for a social media company to handle things differently in one country than it does in another and we wouldn't want to repeat this example, but for example, facebook does things differently in china compared to the rest of the world and does things differently in the us to how it deals with matters in other countries so it's a bit of a misnomer when we say that because facebook operates like this in the us it has to operate the same way in the us 7 operate

the watchdog ofcom says the move is intended to stop millions of scam calls made by criminals based abroad to tackle a huge rise in scam calls and texts over the past year. the facebook whistleblower and former data scientist frances haugen is giving evidence to mps today on government plans for social media regulation. she worked at facebook for two years, and met the campaigner ian russell, whose 14—year—old daughter molly took her own life after viewing disturbing content on instagram, which is owned by facebook. angus crawford reports. she is the former facebook insider who revealed its most closely guarded secrets. 14—year—old molly russell... he is the father who lost his daughter to suicide. now campaigning to protect other children online. nice to meet you. so lovely to meet you. here, meeting for the first time. so what do you think the impact of molly's story was on instagram as a platform and how it approaches safety? facebook is full of kind, conscientious, well—meaning people. the real question is around can we as a public change the incentives such that it makes more sense fo

the watchdog ofcom says the move is intended to stop millions of scam calls made by criminals based abroadtil the cop26 global climate summit opens in glasgow, a family of eight year old triplets have been chosen to represent the uk at the event. they've been regular litter pickers for the last two years. our correspondent phil mackie went to meet them.them. meet britain's youngest official environmental champions, out on their regular after—school litter pick. i'm mbetmi. i'm waimi. and i'm yimi. and we are the one—step greener ambassadors! i here i've got a packet of blueberries, i think. i don't know what it is. but who just leaves it here? they've been doing this since they were six, after being inspired at primary school, where they learned about waste and recycling. we've got a plastic bottle. encouraged by their parents, they decided to go out and do something about it. i've got a bag or something. i don't know what it is, but they could have just put it in the recycling bin. nottingham city council gave them their litter picking kit and their work has been recognised by the governm

online harm hills, which would give ofcom the power to police social media companies so there are bigon england's red list will be removed. that means that arrivals from colombia, peru, panama, the dominican republic, haiti, venezuela and ecuador will not need to quarantine in a hotel. our transport correspondent caroline davies gave this update from heathrow airport. at the moment we don't have official confirmation from the government — this is speculation from inside sources about what is likely to happen. we don't have confirmed dates of when the policy might happen but given previous policies, quite often the announcement might come at the end of the week and then it comes into effect the next. this policy has been going on for eight months and we know over 200,000 people have stayed in quarantine hotels across the uk since the policy was introduced. butjust because there happens to be no countries on the red list does not mean that the red list policy is scrapped and it could be that the government decides to keep the policy and save the opportunity to add countries to the list

internet calls from abroad that pretend to be from uk numbers, according to the telecoms regulator, ofcomorked around the clock to restore the service. vigil has been held overnight for the cinematographer halyna hutchins, accidentally shot dead by the actor alec baldwin on a movie set last week. her image was beamed onto the headquarters of the international alliance of theatrical stage employees. friends and colleagues paid their respects. she was 42 and she was a mum of one. the actorjames michael tyler — who played gunther in the tv series friends — has died at the age of 59. don't forget, you can visit her any time _ don't forget, you can visit her any time you — don't forget, you can visit her any time you want. don't forget, you can visit her any time you want-— don't forget, you can visit her any time you want. great. i keep that in mind. time you want. great. i keep that in mind- hey. — time you want. great. i keep that in mind- hey. so _ time you want. great. i keep that in mind. hey, so what _ time you want. great. i keep that in mind. hey, so what is _ time you want. great. i

what you had with those meetings it sounds like they've been addressed at least pace on the lack ofcomments that we're hearing from neighbors . so i will be happy to be supportingthis project today . >> thank you. >> commissioner more. >> i'm happy to support the project but i agree with commissioner tanner that this project serves as the prototype of what we'd like to see for unit size as well as the very sensitive treatment of the rear walls by stepping back and leaving sunlight and exposure for adjoining buildings to the south. i've found it a agreeable project and approve. >> i have a question to the project sponsor. i believe he's also agreed with commissioner tanner when it comes to discussion of item 9. one question to the project sponsor is for the existing tenants. i understand they are in agreement that they will lead by the end of this year. i'm wondering as to what kind of notice that you have put to them and if it ever returns to a rental market, then the tenant should be notified of their rights. i'm wondering if that's something that you as an owner discuss with the tenants r