Most gambling websites nudge users towards accepting tracking data and harvest it before consent is given, study shows
Online bookmakers and casinos have been accused of widespread non-compliance of information privacy requirements, including “data surveillance” of customers, according to a study.
Nearly nine out of 10 (86%) licensed British gambling websites appear to be flouting the general data protection regulation (GDPR), the strict rules governing how organisations can collect, store and process personal data, according to the research.
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This year's Hugo Award winners were announced last weekend at Worldcon — the world's longest-running science fiction/fantasy convention. The Orange County Register reports there were fans "clad in capes, gowns and elaborate character costumes," with famous attendees including Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin, who held a book signing: Martin attended his first Worldcon in 1971 in Boston, before he published his first novel. Fresh out of his graduate studies, Martin, then 22 years old, found a community of fellow comic book fans and genre enthusiasts... "It was a transformative experience," Martin said. "Worldcon is the heart of the science fiction fandom." Four years later, Martin won his first Hugo Award for his novella, "A Song for Lya," which made him the award's youngest winner — a record he held until Sunday night, when 25-year-old Los Angeles writer H. H. Pak took home the award for Best Novelette. [Read that novelette here...] Notable writers and artists, such as "Star Trek: The Next Generation" screenwriter Ronald D. Moore and graphic artist Stan Sakai, announced the [Hugo award] categories. In their acceptance speeches, winners acknowledged the enduring strength of their community amidst rapidly evolving physical and social environments. They also praised the power of speculative fiction in facilitating dialogue on real-world issues and the importance of human-made art. Among the winners were C. B. Lee, whose novel "Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe" won the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book; the team behind Apple TV's "Murderbot: 'All Systems Red," which won for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form; and John Scalzi, who took home the trophy for Best Series [for Old Man's War]. The night concluded with its most anticipated award — Best Novel — which went to " The Everlasting" by Alix. E. Harrow, a fantasy time-loop novel about a scholar forced to rewrite his nation's history. AppleTV's Murderbot episode beat nominated episodes from other several popular streaming series: Doctor Who (âoeThe Story & the Engineâ) Pluribus (âoeWe Is Usâ) Severance (âoeCold Harborâ) The Wheel of Time (âoeThe Road to the Spear) Overall the awards committee had received 23,543 nominations this year for 4,299 works and individuals, according to the official Hugo Awards site. Other interesting winners: Best Graphic Story or Comic: A Wizard of Earthsea: A Graphic Novel, written by Ursula K. Le Guin, adapted and art by Fred Fordham Best Short Story: "In My Country" by Thomas Ha Best Novella: The River Has Roots Best Related Work: Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age by Ada Palmer Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: Sinners Best Game or Interactive Work: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
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* Israeli militants have besieged two Palestinian families in their homes since the weekend, aiming to take over their properties in the West Bank village of Qusra through a campaign of terror.*
The ambassador to Britain appointed by President Aung San Suu Kyi defied the military government's order to vacate the ambassadorial house in London. The UK is denying the moral doubts about the situation by prosecuting him for "trespassing" in a diplomatic residence.
A Tory-run local council in London wants to shut down soup kitchens because the area around "is not safe".
Other countries have deported millions of Afghans to Afghanistan. For Afghan women, that means deportation to slavery.
To deport someone to a place where she will be tortured violates the treaties which establish the right to asylum. Yet the EU is now trying to negotiate a deal with the Taliban for returning refugees there.
Dictator Kim expressed his appreciation of the bully's gesture of friendship by firing 10 ballistic missiles.
Prisoners in an overcrowded deportation prison (privately run by CoreCivic) in Mississippi (far south in the US) were forced sometimes to spend hours outdoors in bright sun, and at other times, to swelter in crowded cells, because of a power outage.
The prison kommandant held the prisoners incommunicado during that period.
Privatized prisons are a motor for inaccountability, and therefore for cruelty and gratuitious suffering; this makes them inherently unjust. We should abolish them all.
Eissa Hashemi and Maryam Tahmasebi, a married couple of professors who were permanent residents in the US, are in deportation prison because Hashemi's mother, Masoumeh Ebtekar, is a supporter of the regime and participated in the occupation of the US embassy.
It is not impossible that they are somehow working with Ebtekar on a nefarious plot, but the persecutor's henchmen have not made such charges -- they have simply cancelled the family's residence permits arbitrarily and (according to Tahmasebi) aim to keep them in deportation prison for life.