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The leader said a future Tory government would triple the number of police searches and dismissed concerns that black youths are four times more likely to be stopped in the street by police.

Meghan Markle revealed daughter Lilibet's love of pop superstar Beyonce while giving fans a rare glimpse at family life with Prince Harry on Tuesday.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to make it effectively impossible for people to buy what many call burner phones -- a phone not explicitly linked to your identity at the point of purchase -- which would impact privacy-conscious people, to domestic abuse survivors, to journalists, and many more. The FCC plans to do this by legally forcing the country's telecoms to store a wealth of personal information about essentially all phone customers, including a government issued identification number and their physical address, alarming privacy advocates and civil rights activists who compare the measures to those from authoritarian countries where it can be difficult to buy a mobile phone plan without giving up your identity. The proposed change would drastically shake up how people obtain phone plans in the U.S., and have all sorts of privacy and cybersecurity knock-on effects. The FCC is proposing the data collection partly as a way to combat scammers, with telecoms being required to collect other information on business and foreign customers like the intended use case of their bulk phone plan purchase and their IP address. But the changes would mean telecoms collect data on all new and renewing customers, and the FCC provides a long list of other things that the collected data could help authorities with. In a synopsis of the proposed changes, the FCC writes, "Specifically, we seek comment on requiring originating providers to, at a minimum, obtain and retain the name, physical address, government issued identification number, and an alternate telephone number of any new and renewing customer before granting access to its services." The goal of collecting this data, the FCC writes, is to deter some scammers from getting onto a telecom network in the first place, and so "enforcers will be better able to identify the scammers when they do." The FCC compares the changes to the sort of data collected by banks to prevent money laundering. One section stresses that the newly collected data would help "law enforcement to more easily identify callers that use the network to perpetuate crimes by ensuring that voice providers have accurate and complete customer information." It goes on to ask if the data would help identify people buying and selling illicit goods; the investigation of "fraud, espionage, or influence operations that undermine national security", and "address abuse in text messaging networks." "Criminals continue to leverage the anonymity provided by phone calls and texts to defraud Americans and exploit communications networks to further other crimes," one section reads. "For decades, civil libertarians have looked overseas at authoritarian countries where the government requires people to register to get a mobile phone to ensure they can be tracked. We never thought that would happen here," Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union's (ACLU) Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project told 404 Media in an email. "But make no mistake: with this rulemaking, the government is contemplating taking away people's ability to get a burner phone, which will hurt low-income people, domestic violence victims, and anyone else who cares about their privacy."

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The Conservative leader said the Southport attack, the Nottingham murders and the Manchester Arena bombings 'could have been stopped' if officials had not been cowed by equality laws.

On the surface, the Inghams seem like any other attention-hungry British family documenting their lives on social media.

Fence wars, driveway battles, hissy fits about overhanging trees and messy hedges... An astonishing 11million Brits have had a spat with neighbours over property boundaries, a survey says.

The singer, 36, put on a leggy display in a chic off-the-shoulder embellished Erdem dress. The Pixar sequel features a brand-new original track from the superstar, titled I Knew It, I Knew You.

Glover, who played George McFly in the 1985 time travel classic, said in his declaration that he believed Doe sued him as a means to get him to pay her.

As the US football team prepares to kick off its World Cup campaign just down the freeway from Hollywood, the greatest living movie director has a hat-trick on his mind.

An alleged Sullivan victim, Florence, claims she met Tony Livesey, then editor-of the Daily Sport newspaper, and he phoned up Sullivan to arrange a date for her to visit the businessman's house.

Belfast was rocked by fiery disorder into the night when hundreds of masked protestors took to the streets in response to Monday's brutal knife attack.

Last month was the second-hottest May on record, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has revealed.

Police specialists have been called in to assess the mysterious items, with police trying to ascertain if they are dangerous or not

Hero Matt McKiernan told today how he battered the Belfast knifeman with his son's hurling stick after encountering the attack on the way to a petrol station.

Joey Mawson has spoken out after spending three years clearing his name after being charged with the horrific alleged attack.

David Moore, 63, pictured, and his wife Dawn, 59, have spent £325,000 taking their case all the way to the High Court insisting the public pathway didn't run by their 'multi-million pound' home.

Catherine Barningham, 49, blew more than £43,000 on foreign holidays, an Alsatian puppy and luxury cars after taking control of vulnerable 78-year-old Elizabeth Smith's affairs.

At the height of the Cold War, there seemed almost no limit to the appetite of the CIA to meddle in other countries. The agency's clandestine web of influence stretched right across the globe.

Details of the horrific assault, which took place on Kinnaird Avenue in northern Belfast at around 10.30pm, were released after graphic footage of the attack was shared online.

After her character Cassie Howard turned to sex work on the subscription platform in the show's third season, some viewers slammed the plotline as a 'humiliation ritual.'