Ask JackGDPRBarbara is constantly being interrupted by pop-ups about the new GDPR. Is there anything she can do?
Because of GDPR, it feels as though my internet access – my access to information – is now more restricted. I am constantly being interrupted by pop-ups that want me to agree to the website’s privacy policy, use of my data and so on, in order to “personalise my experience”. After recent revelations about unauthorised use of personal data, I’m wary of agreeing without checking what their proposals are, but I often just close the page because there are too many options and it’s too much of a bother. Read More...
The German chancellor Angela Merkel and Bill Gates at talks in Berlin in 2014. A new study reveals the access billionaire philanthropists have to political elites. Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/ReutersThe German chancellor Angela Merkel and Bill Gates at talks in Berlin in 2014. A new study reveals the access billionaire philanthropists have to political elites. Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/ReutersGlobal development This article is more than 8 years oldAre Gates and Rockefeller using their influence to set agenda in poor states? Read More...
Bollywood This article is more than 5 months oldBollywood film accused of trivialising Holocaust with Auschwitz scenesThis article is more than 5 months oldCalls for Prime Video to remove Bawaal after using death camp as relationship metaphor
A Bollywood film has been accused of trivialising and demeaning the deaths of millions of Jews killed during the Holocaust by using Auschwitz as a metaphor for relationship problems, with the main character declaring that “we’re all a little like Hitler” during a fantasy scene set in the concentration camp. Read More...
