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Apple’s plan to scan for child abuse images ‘tears at heart of privacy’
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Technology like that proposed by Apple to search iPhones for child sexual abuse images would open the door to mass surveillance and be vulnerable to exploitation, world-leading security and cryptography experts have s...
Walrus from Space census seeks public help to spot animals in satellite images
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Conservationists are on the hunt for “citizen scientists” to spot walruses from their own home to help track populations of the creatures and give scientists an understanding of how many are left in the wild. Keen-eye...
North Korea expanding weapons-grade uranium plant, satellite images suggest
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Recent satellite images appear to show North Korea is expanding a uranium enrichment plant at its main Yongbyon nuclear complex, with experts saying the move shows an intent to boost the production of bomb materials. ...
‘I’m the face of it’: the people whose images came to define 9/11 reflect on the day
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Marcy Borders was a 28-year-old Bank of America employee when she fled from the north tower on 9/11. She became known as “the dust lady” because of a single indelible photograph. She died from stomach cancer in 2015....
Apple delays plans to scan cloud uploads for child sexual abuse images
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Apple will delay its plans to begin scanning user images for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) before uploading them to the cloud, the company says, after a backlash from privacy groups. The company’s proposal, first...
The knock: the families torn apart by an arrest over child abuse images
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When the police came to Emma’s door on a Sunday evening, she could never have imagined that her ex-husband would be arrested for downloading indecent images of children. What happens to the families whose lives ‘the k...
Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child sexual abuse images
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Apple has unveiled plans to scan its iPhones in the US for images of child sexual abuse, drawing praise from child protection groups but raising concern among some security researchers that the system could be misused...
Wayne Rooney apologises to family and Derby over online images
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Wayne Rooney has apologised to his family and Derby after images emerged on Sunday appearing to show the former England striker asleep in a hotel room surrounded by a group of young women. “I made a mistake,” Derby ma...
Exhibition celebrates Amy Winehouse with previously unseen images
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One of Amy Winehouse’s closest creative collaborators has called for a positive reappraisal of her life and work, as he unveils intimate, never-before-seen images of the star. Phil Griffin – the music video director a...
Chernobyl for Ukraine, pizza for Italy: South Korean TV apologises for Olympic images
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A South Korean broadcaster has apologised after using offensive images to depict several countries during the opening ceremony of the Olympics on Friday. MBC displayed photos and facts about each country as athletes w...
Striking images: the 20th century, as told by Guardian photographers – in pictures
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It was in 1905 that the Manchester Guardian published its first ever photograph, of the Angel Stone in Manchester Cathedral. Three years later, the paper hired its first staff photographer, Walter Doughty. In many way...
UK children get tool to help stop nude images being shared online
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Children in the UK who are worried that nude pictures and videos may end up online will be able to report the material to help prevent it from being uploaded in the future. For the first time, young people will be abl...
Game of Thrones prequel: what can we learn from the first images?
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Game of Thrones currently has a bit of an image problem. The sense that George RR Martin will never actually complete his saga has taken all the fun out of reading the books, and the dismal Crayola scribble of a final...
German police shut one of world’s biggest darknet child abuse images sites
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An online platform said to be one of the largest websites for child sexual abuse images in the world has been closed down by German police after a lengthy investigation. The Boystown platform, which had a membership o...
Out of a heap of broken images, Chernobyl seeks World Heritage status
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A mothballed nuclear power station surrounded by wasteland, rubble and abandoned buildings is not what most people associate with a UNESCO World Heritage site. But that is what Ukraine has in mind for Chernobyl. Hopin...