Older adults are finding help wading through online information amid the coronavirus pandemic.A virtual world can be tough to navigate for those who don t have a computer, smartphone or access to the internet.Helen Baker said frustration is an understatement when it comes to navigating today s world in a pandemic. It s why she goes to the St. Mary s Outreach Center in Hampden to get help. I try to be patient, but everything is online. Everything you do is online. I know we need the technology, but I m not into it, Baker said. With people being more isolated, not being allowed to see their family and friends, they are completely cut off, said Freddy Gorman, a case manager at the St. Mary s Outreach Center.The St. Mary s Outreach Center helps about 700 clients in the city each year with everything from free food assistance to arranging transportation to help with technology. I ll walk them through how do use the phone because they ve always had a flip phone or they had a corded
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Photo: JOEL SAGET / Contributor (Getty Images) France is reportedly lobbying hard in favor of granting individual European Union member states more power to punish Big Tech when it starts acting a fool.
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Companies like Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook were first dealt a blow in December 2020, when the European Commission introduced two pieces of legislation aimed at regulating how to companies are allowed to operate within the EU. The first piece of legislation, known as the Digital Markets Act, limits self-preferencing by companies in, say, app store search results, and the second piece of legislation, known as the Digital Services Act, focuses on the creation of a single set of rules for the EU to hold companies to in an effort to keep users safe online.