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The Data Use and Access Bill: How new laws may affect the way your data is handled | Science & Tech News
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As new laws go, the Data Use and Access Bill sounds like one of the most boring imaginable. But don’t nod off just yet… The revamp of data laws, claims the government, has the potential to boost the economy, benefit patients, police and parents – even help reduce disruption from road repairs. But done wrong,…
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Revenge porn laws to be strengthened to make online firms do more to prevent ‘humiliation and suffering’ | Science & Tech News
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Sharing revenge porn will be upgraded to the most serious type of offence in a change to the Online Safety Act. It means social media firms must proactively remove such images and take steps to stop them appearing in the first place. There will large fines for companies that don’t comply. The government hopes the…
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Planning laws preventing faster internet, BT boss Marc Allera tells Sky News | Business News
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Planning regulation is slowing down the rollout of faster internet, the chief executive of BT’s consumer division has told Sky News. Planning rules were said to be the “key barrier” to implementing 5G mobile phone signal by BT consumer division CEO Marc Allera. He described the legislation as “very arcane and really not favourable to…
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BBC presenter scandal: How social media has collided with privacy and defamation laws | UK News
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The two most popular hashtags relating to allegations against a BBC presenter have been posted almost 45,000 times on Twitter since Friday. Sky News has analysed data that shows the scale of discussion on Twitter and TikTok around the claims. The volume of posts raises questions over how effective privacy and defamation laws are in…
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Scientists say they may have challenged one of Newton’s fundamental laws of physics – the conservation of momentum | Science & Tech News
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Sir Isaac Newton first stated the laws of motion in Principia Mathematica back in 1687 and today those laws are seen as facts – that when something moves it has to push against something else. But a new study may have fundamentally challenged the law of the conservation of momentum – at least in curved…