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Médecins Sans Frontières condemned for ‘profiting from exploitative images’
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Doctors, photographers, human rights activists and academics have written to Médecins Sans Frontières to raise concerns that the medical charity is exploiting the trauma of vulnerable patients to promote its work. In ...
Nine arrested in Israel after air crash images sent to plane passengers
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A taxiing plane returned to the gate at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport after photos of aviation disasters popped up on passengers’ phones – sent, Israeli authorities believe, by nine people onboard using the iPhone Air...
Russia deploys trained dolphins at Black Sea naval base, satellite images show
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Russia has deployed trained military dolphins at its naval base in the Black Sea – possibly to protect its fleet from an underwater attack – according to new analysis of satellite images. The US Naval Institute (USNI)...
Instagram under fire over sexualised child images
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Instagram is failing to remove accounts that attract hundreds of sexualised comments for posting pictures of children in swimwear or partial clothing, even after they are flagged to it through the in-app reporting too...
The photographer with 60,000 undeveloped images of rock history ‘waiting to come back to life’’
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In Charles Daniels’ modest home in Somerville, Massachusetts, on the outskirts of Boston, lie tens of thousands of undeveloped photos, sitting in molting canisters scrawled with cryptic markings and decaying instructi...
Sites reported record 29.3m child abuse images in 2021
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A record 29.3m items of child abuse imagery were found and removed across the internet in 2021, according to data from the US nonprofit organisation in charge of coordinating reports on the matter. The figure released...
Alligators just want to have fun: Florida images may show predators at play
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With one sizable difference, they could be scenes of everyday recreation in the sunshine state of Florida: a tourist playing with a football, another eagerly chasing a remote control boat round a lake. But the remarka...
North Korea: satellite images suggest building work at nuclear test site for first time since 2018
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Commercial satellite imagery shows construction at North Korea’s nuclear testing site for the first time since it was closed in 2018, US-based analysts said on Tuesday, adding to concerns the country could resume test...
Dutch king to retire golden coach with slavery images after racism row
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The Dutch king, Willem-Alexander, has announced that he is mothballing – at least for now – the royal golden coach which has been embroiled in a racism controversy. The opulent horse-drawn carriage, called De Gouden K...
Staffordshire police worker jailed for storing murder and postmortem images
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A police worker who illegally downloaded and took home thousands of images, including those showing murder victims and postmortems, has been jailed for three years. Darren Collins, a digital forensic specialist from S...
Police release images of men wanted over violent clashes at Wiltshire hunt
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Police have released images of three men wanted in connection with violent clashes at an annual hunt in Wiltshire. Scuffles broke out between anti-hunting protesters and supporters at the Boxing Day meet of the Avon V...
Police officer took selfies at murder scene and sent racist WhatsApp images
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A police officer took selfies at a murder scene where a teenager had been stabbed to death, and sent “appalling” racist, homophobic and offensive images via WhatsApp, the Guardian has learned. PC Ryan Connolly from th...
Three in four girls have been sent sexual images via apps, report finds
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Schools and parents should do more to support students who are being sexually harassed through platforms such as Snapchat and Instagram, while the tech companies need to clamp down on non-consensual sexual images bein...
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. ...