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A judge has ruled that security cameras and a Ring doorbell installed in a house in Oxfordshire "unjustifiably invaded" the privacy of a neighbour, in a case that could have implications for home surveillance devices. Dr Mary…

The mum of one of the world's best professional Fortnite players has signed a contract with a gaming organisation to develop her own career. Anne Fish, 58, has managed her son Benjy "Benjyfishy" Fish, since he went professional…

Taxi driver Chris is obsessively checking his phone for updates. "I'm set to lose almost 2,500 euros (£2,100) worth of cryptocurrency coins," he says. Chris describes himself as "a small crypto-holder from Austria" and is one…

We all know that the internet isn't safe. Facebook has been hit with multiple hacks and data breaches. Twitter was hacked in a scheme to steal Bitcoin. Microsoft's Exchange Server was breached. Even the US government suffered a massive…

Parents will now be able to have images of their children removed from Google search results, the company has said. It came as Google announced a range of changes to child-safety measures across several of its products. It will…

Fitness influencer Elle Edwards has spoken to the BBC about dealing with explicit private messages and cyber-flashing - the non-consensual sending of pictures and videos of male genitals. She said that she and many of her peers are forced…

A couple have been left "heartbroken" after being tricked out of their savings in a Royal Mail text scam. Tom and Freyja Cuff, from Frome, Somerset, received a text about a parcel collection which eventually led to their bank…

A leading legal expert is warning of an "epidemic" of sexual abuse where images of people's faces are merged with pornography and made available online. Deepfake pornography is where computer technology is used to…

A father and a student campaigner are seeking a High Court hearing to consider whether the government should tighten youngsters' access to porn. Ioannis Dekas and Ava Vakil want the government to implement proof of age for access…

Victims of ransomware gangs are being urged to report it rather than pay the criminals behind the attacks. The gangs use malicious software to scramble and steal an organisation's computer data and demand money to restore it. Megan…

One in eight porn videos promoted to first-time users of the UK's leading adult sites are labelled with text describing sexually violent acts, according to a study. It analysed titles and descriptions of 131,738 videos on…

One in three people spotted hate speech in online video platforms in the past three months, a report by Ofcom found. Racist content was most frequently seen, but religious discrimination, transphobic and homophobic…

Criminals and paedophiles are trying to groom and exploit young siblings as part of an emerging trend of online sexual abuse, experts have warned. The Internet Watch Foundation said victims ranged from 3-16 years,…

People are being urged to spot signs that members of their families are viewing indecent images online. Calls to a confidential helpline to prevent online abuse in the UK have increased by nearly 50% during the pandemic, say…

Last night I got infected with a virus that I had never heard of at first. It was called Ransomware, and I had never heard of it before so I was pretty freaked out. After researching I found out my situation seemed worse than the…

When my Spotify account was hacked during the current lockdown, I communicated with the unwanted visitor using song and podcast titles. I live alone in Bristol and work from home. One morning, when I hadn't…

The daughter of a fraud victim has branded HSBC's dedicated fraud helpline a "disgrace" after it took 20 hours of waiting on hold to get help. Lynn Edmonds' father, Richard, had £8,500 stolen by criminals who tricked…

I FLATTER myself that I’m intelligent. I often listen to Radio 4’s Money Box while making lunch, and can’t believe all the people who answer their phone to a random stranger and end up transferring all of their money into the stranger’s…

Individuals who aren’t able to bike to work or who use plastic water bottles aren’t the population that’s primarily responsible for global warming—Exxon, Shell, and their peer companies are, along with the lobbyists who press their…

My first job was for a financial news website, but in my own time, I set up a satirical internet magazine, Global Village Idiot, and then I launched my first blog, Politics of Well-Being, in 2008. I’ve been blogging for 11 years, and…

I am really at a loss right now. I worked for a startup for two years and put my heart and soul into helping build the company as a senior manager. I ended up quiting about 2 months ago to focus on relaxing during the holidays and spending…

In 2018, British bank TSB was stuck in the aftermath of an ugly divorce. Though it had been two years since the financial institution had split from Lloyds Banking Group (the two had originally merged in 1995), TSB was still symbiotically…

CEDAR RAPIDS — A man who recruited his cousin to break in to a Cedar Rapids man’s home and force him at gunpoint to transfer an internet domain was sentenced Monday to 14 years in prison. Rossi L. Adams II, 27, of Cedar Rapids, also known…

A woman has told of her shock after finding her personal details on a website that detailed names of girls men were planning to attack and rape. Becky, which is not her real name, found her details and location on a so-called "revenge…