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Covid: Post-exposure antibody protection trialled

Covid: Post-exposure antibody protection trialled Ten people have been given antibodies as a form of emergency protection after being exposed to coronavirus, in the first trial of its kind. The experimental jab is being offered to people who have been in close contact with a confirmed Covid-19 case within the past eight days. If it […]

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EU reveals plan to regulate Big Tech

EU reveals plan to regulate Big Tech Big tech firms face yearly checks on how they are tackling illegal and harmful content under new rules unveiled by the European Commission. Fresh restrictions are also planned to govern their use of customers’ data, and to prevent the firms ranking their own services above competitors’ in search […]

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Pornhub sued by 40 Girls Do Porn sex trafficking victims

Pornhub sued by 40 Girls Do Porn sex trafficking victims Pornhub has been sued by 40 women who say it profited from a sex-trafficking operation by a content partner. The women were all victims of Girls Do Porn, whose owners have been charged with offences by US officials. The victims allege that Pornhub and its […]

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‘I was raped at 14, and the video ended up on a porn site’

Last year Rose Kalemba wrote a blog post explaining how hard it had been – when she was raped as a 14-year-old girl – to get a video of the attack removed from a popular porn website. Dozens of people then contacted her to say that they were facing the same problem today. The nurse […]

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Fashion Mogul Peter Nygard Indicted on Sex-Trafficking Charges

Mr. Nygard was arrested in Canada at the request of U.S. authorities. A federal indictment in New York City accused him of recruiting dozens of women and teenage girls for sex. Peter Nygard, the Canadian fashion executive, has been charged with sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and other crimes that involved dozens of women and teenage […]

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EU Digital Services Act set to bring in new rules for tech giants

EU Digital Services Act set to bring in new rules for tech giants The European Union is set to unveil new rules it says will “overhaul” the digital market, including how tech giants operate. A pair of laws – the Digital Services and Digital Markets Acts – will be announced later on Tuesday. They are […]

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Putting digital services at the service of Europeans

With a clear and predictable framework for the single market we will be able to prevent harmful behaviour before it even takes place Even in the midst of the biggest crisis most of us have ever witnessed, digital services help us to continue working, doing business, learning, staying informed, shopping, entertaining ourselves, socialising and staying […]

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Philippines targets deal for 25 million doses of Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine

MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines aims to finalise negotiations with Sinovac Biotech this week to acquire 25 million doses of the Chinese company’s COVID-19 vaccine for delivery by March, a coronavirus taskforce official said on Monday. President Rodrigo Duterte, who has pursued warmer ties with Beijing, wants to inoculate all his country’s 108 million people, […]

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Pornhub removes all user-uploaded videos amid legality row

Pornhub removes all user-uploaded videos amid legality row Adult video site Pornhub has removed the majority of videos by suspending all unverified uploads, amid a row over illegal content. Mastercard, one of the world’s biggest payment providers, pulled support for the site last week over the scandal. A New York Times report had accused the site […]

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Kenya’s black market baby trade: A mother’s choice

Last month, BBC Africa Eye exposed a thriving black-market trade in babies in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. Police arrested seven people on trafficking charges in response to the story, but what about the women on the other side of these illegal deals? What drives a mother to sell her child? Adama’s life was easy when […]

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