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US students are being asked to work remotely. But 22% of homes don't have internet
Nationwide, approximately 22% of households don’t have home internet, including more than 4 million households with school-age children.
How to stop your smart home spying on you (Guardian, The)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 03/11/2020 - 11:23Facebook sued by Australian information watchdog over Cambridge Analytica-linked data breach (Guardian, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 03/09/2020 - 11:12Victor Pickard: American journalism is dying. Its survival requires public funds (Guardian, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 02/24/2020 - 11:00Defence Secretary Mark Esper warns Huawei 5G will put alliances at risk (Guardian, The)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 02/17/2020 - 17:22US urges Britain to take another 'hard look' at letting Huawei into 5G (Guardian, The)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 02/14/2020 - 11:59Ofcom to be put in charge of regulating internet content in UK
The UK's Ofcom will be put in charge of regulating the internet, the government has announced, with a new range of powers intended to protect users from “harmful and illegal content” online. The regulations are broadly focused on two new sets of requirements. One, around illegal content, will see platforms hit with new targets to ensure that such content is removed quickly, ideally prevented from being posted in the first place, with a particular focus on terrorist and child sexual abuse content.