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    Visiting America? US border agents want your Twitter, Facebook URLs

    The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency wants to collect links to social network accounts of people visiting the Land of the free. Under new proposals, each traveler filling out an I-94 travel form or applying for an Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) visa will be asked...
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    Facebook wants to hear what you have to say. Literally.

    Professor Kelli Burns claims to have tested a hunch that the social media giant's mobile application is listening to everything you say and providing ads based on that content, and discovered it was true. The mass communication prof at the University of South Florida, with the help of telly...
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    AVG to flog your web browsing, search history from mid-October

    Changes in the privacy policy of AVG's free antivirus doodad will allow it to collect your web browsing and search history – and sell it to advertisers to bankroll its freemium security software products,The changes will come into play on 15 October. The revised privacy policy,The key paragraph...
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    Spotify even worse than the NSA

    New terms and conditions popping up on Spotify users screens give the Swedish streaming company sweeping new rights. The “What we collect” section of the new terms seems scary enough: By using or interacting with the Service, you are consenting to: the collection, use, sharing, and processing...
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    Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank

    Not sure if your where a Alan Partridge fan? If so you must remember when he pitched a bizarre list of programme ideas to a BBC executive as he suffered a nervous breakdown way back in 1999, such as Arm Wrestling with Chas and Dave, Inner City Sumo, Cooking in Prison and Monkey Tennis, well one...
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    GOV Smut filter nails two nonces every day

    National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) announced that two offenders are being convicted every day for possessing child abuse images. "This is an alarming study and just a fragment of the hundreds of other similar convictions during the same period," said Claire...
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    North Korean citizens told: Socialist haircuts are a thing... go get some

    The North Korean government has issued haircut guidance for its citizens and chosen 28 hairstyles it deems "appropriate" for members of the single-party state. According to the WantChina Times, photos of the 28 haircuts recommended by the totalitarian regime have been issued to salons around the...
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