UK PRIME MINISTER Theresa May has called for ’internet companies’ to do more to tackle the spread of extremist material in the wake of the London Bridge terror attack.In a speech given on Sunday morning, May once again shook her fist in the direction of Google, Facebook and Twitter, and said that existing online ”safe spaces” that allow terrorism to ”breed” must be eradicated.”We cannot allow this ideology the safe space it needs to breed. Yet that is precisely what the internet – and the big companies that provide internet-based services – provide,” May said.”We need to work with allied, democratic governments to reach international agreements that regulate cyberspace to prevent the spread of extremism and terrorist planning. And we need to do everything we can at home to reduce the risks of extremism online.”

Shopping apps let you buy fast on your phone and offer discounts and rewards when you shop in-store. But for some retail apps, that convenience has a price: privacy. The way retailers online track your shopping habits with cookies, some brick-and-mortar retailers are using apps that access your phone’s GPS to track your location in the real world.The tip-off may be the timing of notifications that pop up when you are in close proximity to a store. We asked shoppers in Philadelphia if they had any unusually well timed app notifications.One woman said that when she came to a certain location on 69th Street on her walk to work, an ad for the Gap popped up offering her a coupon to go shopping. Another shopper said the Urban Outfitters app seemed to know where he was, ”Whenever I come within like 50 feet I get like, ’hey did you know there’s a sale ending in a couple days?'” And others wondered why apps from Target and Macy’s asked to access their location when they were installed.According to University of Pennsylvania professor Joseph Turow, many shopping apps now use a phone’s GPS to access your location.”They have technologies that can follow you as you walk through sectors of the store and can connect to your data, so they know who you are,” he said.

If your kid racked up hundreds of dollars on your credit card for virtual ”gems” on Amazon, your share of $70 million in refunds is finally on its way.Along with Apple and Google, the ecommerce giant settled with the FTC in 2014 over allegations that it had insufficient safeguards to prevent children from making unauthorized in-app purchases.These especially included virtual currency in games bought through the Amazon store that gave players a boost.Play Facebook TwitterEmbed Amazon Refunding $70 Million For Unapproved Purchases Made by Children 1:31The FTC’s suit explained how ”a child may be prompted to use or acquire seemingly fictitious currency, including a ’boatload of doughnuts, a can of stars and bars of gold,’ but in reality the child is making an in-app purchase using real money.”This case demonstrates what should be a bedrock principle for all companies — you ”must get customers’ consent before you charge them,” said Thomas B. Pahl, acting director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection in a press release. ”Consumers affected by Amazon’s practices can now be compensated for charges they didn’t expect or authorize.”

En man i 35-årsåldern, som misstänks för ett omfattande telefonsabotage som nyligen drabbade flera myndigheter, ställs i dag inför rätta i Södertörns tingsrätt, rapporterar Sveriges Radio Ekot.Mannen, som kommer från en kommun i Stockholms län, misstänks för att med hjälp av flera telefoner och appar automatiskt ha ringt upp telefonväxlar oavbrutet, vilket har lett till att de i många fall slagits ut, rapporterar Ekot.Sju arbetsförmedlingar runt om i landet drabbades, samt polisen i Malmö, Göteborg och Stockholm. Även telefonväxlar tillhörande SOS Alarm 112, fyra vårdcentraler i Stockholmsområdet, Södersjukhuset i Stockholm och Botkyrka kommun attackerades.– 112 är det allvarligaste fallet. Det har funnits en risk för att andra som behöver sjukvård, ambulans och polis inte skulle nå fram, säger åklagare Per Bergmark, som har utrett fallet, till Ekot.

Technology companies have defended their handling of extremist content following the London terror attack.Prime Minister Theresa May called for areas of the internet to be closed because tech giants had provided a ”safe space” for terrorist ideology.But Google said it had already spent hundreds of millions of pounds on tackling the problem.Facebook and Twitter said they were working hard to rid their networks of terrorist activity and support.Google, whoch owns Youtube, along with Facebook, whoch owns WhatsApp, and Twitter were among the tech companies already facing pressure to tackle extremist content.That pressure intensified following Saturday night’s attack, whoch killed seven people and injured 48. The so-called Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attack.Speaking outside Downing Street on Sunday, Mrs May said: ”We cannot allow this ideology the safe space it needs to breed.

Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc will join Foxconn’s bid for Toshiba Corp’s semiconductor business, the Nikkei business daily quoted Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou as saying on Monday.The two U.S. technology giants plan to ”chip in funds”, Gou said in an interview, according to the newspaper. It was not immediately clear if this would take the form of a direct investment in the semiconductor unit or would be financing for the deal.Taiwan’s Foxconn, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd, has also partnered with its Japanese unit Sharp Corp in its bid.”Foxconn can confirm that we have submitted a bid for Toshiba’s chip business with a number of strategic partners,” the Taiwanese firm said in a statement to Reuters. It said it would discuss details ”at the appropriate time”.Representatives for Apple and Amazon declined to comment.Toshiba is depending on the sale of the unit, the world’s second-largest NAND chip maker, to cover billions of dollars in cost overruns at its now bankrupt U.S. nuclear unit Westinghouse.