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Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and FriendsThe company formed data-sharing partnerships with Apple, Samsung and dozens of other device makers, raising new concerns about its privacy protections.As Facebook sought to become the world’s dominant social media service, it struck agreements allowing phone and other device makers access to vast amounts of its users’ personal information.Facebook allowed the device companies access to the data of users’ friends without their explicit consent, even after declaring that it would no longer share such information with outsiders. Some device makers could retrieve personal information even from users’ friends who believed they had barred any sharing, The New York Times found.
To borrow the expressions used by Thorpe’s barrister at his trial (for incitement to murder and conspiracy to murder)... of all the “bastards, liars, perverts, thieves, blackmailers, inbreds and arsonists” to make their way into the House of Commons, it was the Right Honourable Jeremy Thorpe who had the greatest of criminal charges levelled against him – an achievement of sorts.
Is Greece on the brink of an overtourism crisis?
Greece unveils designs for commemorative €2 coinsNation plans two circulating commems for 2018 Greece has announced the themes and unveiled designs for both of its 2018 circulating commemorative €2 coins.One of the coins marks 70 years since the union of the Dodecanese with Greece. The Dodecanese is a name meaning “The Twelve Islands,” and today denotes an island group in the southeastern Aegean Sea, comprising 15 major islands and 93 smaller islands that were under other rule for 740 years. Following World War II, they were formally united with Greece by the 1947 Peace Treaty with Italy. The second coin will celebrate Greek poet Kostis Palamas (1859 to 1943) 75 years after his death. Each nation is allowed to issue up to two different circulating commemorative designs annually, with designs of their choosing, though few nations issue the maximum number of designs.
One-in-Two Greek Businesses ‘Breaking Tax Laws’One-in-two Greek businesses audited in the first quarter of 2018 were found to have committed some kind of tax offense, according to the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE).
School bans boys from wearing shorts, telling them to wear skirts insteadIt is understood to be part of a gender-neutral uniform policy at Chiltern Edge School
UK petrol prices near four-year high despite crude oil costs fallingLatest figures from AA show pump prices have not followed the slight decline in crude costs over recent weeks