Bid to make Facebook and Amazon pay legal price for online scams as Scots fraud soars during lockdown
Bid to make Facebook and Amazon pay legal price for online scams as Scots fraud soars during lockdown A coalition of organisations is calling on ministers to bring in new laws to make online platforms such as Facebook and Amazon legally responsible for online scams - as it emerged cases of fraud in Scotland have soared during the pandemic. The Dunfermline-based Carnegie UK Trust is one of 17 organisations who are warning that a failure to make online platforms such as Facebook and Amazon directly responsible for any scam content on their site risks the UK failing in its ambition to be the safest place in the world to be online.
Scottish Government sets up Digital Ethics People s Panel
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Comedian Janey Godley kick-starts OnFife menopause project
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Vaccines are being rolled out; in some places, people are eating in restaurants again; even some cinemas are opening up. A year after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic, the world is slowly returning to a semblance of what it was before the coronavirus began its devastating march.
And with trillions of dollars of stimulus measures acting like a financial shot in the arm of the global economy, stock markets have surged as forecasters such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ramp up their projections for economic growth.
But some economists fear that the underlying causes of the pandemic – among them our pursuit of never-ending economic growth at the expense of the world’s limited natural resources – have yet to be addressed.
Stand-up star Janey strikes chord with Fife menopause set
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Comedian Janey Godley isn’t known for holding back and now she’s set her sights on raising a laugh out of another taboo – the menopause.
The Scots comic, whose Nicola Sturgeon voiceovers and Donald Trump protest signs have made her a household name, teamed up with OnFife library staff to kickstart the Pause…not Full Stop scheme.
Her menopause-themed set went down a storm with a sell-out crowd, paving the way for an informal chat that let audience members share their experiences with guest panellists.
She said the online launch event had been as eye-opening as it had been enjoyable.