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Maik:

--- Quote ---First receipt lottery set to take place

The first receipt lottery (concerning electronic transactions) will take place on Thursday or Friday at the latest, with 1,000 taxpayers set to win 1,000 euros each.

From Thursday morning, taxpayers should be able to obtain their personal lottery numbers via the website of the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (www.aade.gr), while the winners will be notified via email.
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http://www.ekathimerini.com/223737/article/ekathimerini/business/first-receipt-lottery-set-to-take-place

Maik:

--- Quote ---Google faces mass legal action in UK over data snooping

Google is being taken to court, accused of collecting the personal data of millions of users, in the first mass legal action of its kind in the UK.

It focuses on allegations that Google unlawfully harvested information from 5.4 million UK users by bypassing privacy settings on their iPhones.

The case centres on how Google used cookies - small pieces of computer text that are used to collect information from devices in order to deliver targeted ads.

The complaint is that for several months in 2011 and 2012 Google placed ad-tracking cookies on the devices of Safari users which is set by default to block such cookies.

The Safari workaround, as it became known, affected a variety of devices but the UK case will focus on iPhone users.

The case will be heard in the High Court, likely in spring 2018.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42166089

Maik:

--- Quote ---New whisky distillery near Dingwall 'a world first'
What is described as the world's first community-owned craft whisky distillery has opened.

GlenWyvis Distillery has been constructed on a hillside near Dingwall in the Highlands following a crowdfunding campaign.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-42165512

Maik:
Don't think Tony K (or anyone else) will be quite so captivated by this BBC quick quiz:


--- Quote ---Quiz time: Patron saints

Do you know your Andrew from your Zita?

Enter this weird, and occasionally dark, world
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Play

Maik:

--- Quote ---Net migration falls by more than 100,000 after Brexit vote
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42178038

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