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WhatsApp’s controversial privacy update may be banned in EU – but app’s sights are fixed on India
Queen Mary University of London
The roll out of WhatsApp’s new privacy policy, which critics warn will lead to more data sharing with its parent company Facebook, received a blow on May 13 after German regulators temporarily banned the update. The regulators are now said to be seeking an EU-wide ban by presenting their case to the European Data Protection Board.
WhatsApp users will have noticed a recent intensification of pop-ups nudging them to agree to the app’s new terms of service. The cliff-edge deadline for users to accept these new terms – with WhatsApp announcing that those who failed to do so would lose functionality on the app – had been set for Saturday, May 15. That deadline was recently moved forward by “several weeks”.
Glasgow and Moray will stay in a higher tier of lockdown when the rest of the country s restrictions are eased on Monday, Nicola Sturgeon has announced.
Scotland s First Minister told MSPs a surge in coronavirus cases needed to be contained to prevent further restrictions.
The rest of the country is due to drop to Level 2 from May 17, when those in other parts of Scotland will be able to stay overnight in other people s homes and meet up to six people from three households indoors.
Meanwhile Boris Johnson will lead a press conference today in which he is expected to address the outbreak that has struck 15 towns and cities.
The dire SAGE warning that Indian variant could put 10,000 in hospital a day within months - which puts end of lockdown in peril and led scientists to BACK regional vaccine surges
SAGE model warns that up to 10,000 people per day could be hospitalised in summer in worst-case scenario
But scientists are optimistic vaccines will work against the strain and still no evidence it is more dangerous
Public Health England report showed cases in the UK more than doubled in a week from 520 to 1,313
Modern Diplomacy
Published 1 week ago
Democracies have an inbuilt flaw when their own processes can be employed to undermine them. It is what has happened in Hungary in the last decade, and Hungary is not alone.
In his youth the current prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, was an ardent dissident leading a youth movement, Fidesz, and in 1989 he was calling for the removal of Soviet troops and free democratic elections. Opposition to single-party socialist rule was eventually successful, and he was elected a Fidesz member of the National Assembly in 1990.
In 1998, his party won a plurality, and he served his first term as prime minister until 2002 when the socialists returned to power. However, a landslide victory in 2010 gave Orban a two-thirds supermajority, and with it the power to amend constitutional laws.