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Four police officers turned up at Lucy and Rob Davies' home and hauled them off to a police station where they were held for 22 hours before officers accepted they had done nothing wrong.

The site currently looks 'absolutely awful' after multiple fires

Hannah Spencer, who embarrassed Labour in the Gorton & Denton by-election in February, hit out at the 'unprofessional' culture in Parliament.

The OS trying to upsell you subscriptions is more than just an annoyance

opinion  You’ve had your laptop for months, and you’ve always made sure it installed Microsoft updates. Then one day you boot up, and Windows 11 greets you with a confusing message: “You’re almost done setting up your PC.”…

Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old armed man from California, has been charged with firearm offenses and assaulting a federal officer after storming the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

The Conversation published this warning from privacy/tech law/electronic surveillance attorney Anne Toomey McKenna (also an affiliated faculty member at Penn State's Institute for Computational and Data Sciences). The U.S. government "is able to purchase Americans' sensitive data because the information it buys is not subject to the same restrictions as information it collects directly. The federal government is also ramping up its abilities to directly collect data through partnerships with private tech companies. These surveillance tech partnerships are becoming entrenched, domestically and abroad, as advances in AI take surveillance to unprecedented levels... " Congressional funding is supercharging huge government investments in surveillance tech and data analytics driven by AI, which automates analysis of very large amounts of data. The massive 2025 tax-and-spending law netted the Department of Homeland Security an unprecedented US$165 billion in yearly funding. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, part of DHS, got about $86 billion. Disclosure of documents allegedly hacked from Homeland Security reveal a massive surveillance web that has all Americans in its scope. DHS is expanding its AI surveillance capabilities with a surge in contracts to private companies. It is reportedly funding companies that provide more AI-automated surveillance in airports; adapters to convert agents' phones into biometric scanners; and an AI platform that acquires all 911 call center data to build geospatial heat maps to predict incident trends. Predicting incident trends can be a form of predictive policing, which uses data to anticipate where, when and how crime may occur... Meanwhile, the Trump administration's national policy framework for artificial intelligence, released on March 20, 2026, urges Congress to use grants and tax incentives to fund "wider deployment of AI tools across American industry" and to allow industry and academia to use federal datasets to train AI. Using federal datasets this way raises privacy law concerns because they contain a lifetime of sensitive details about you, including biographical, employment and tax information.... The author argues that it's now critical for Americans to know "why the laws you might think are protecting your data do not apply or are ignored." On March 18, 2026, FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed to Congress that the FBI is buying Americans' data from data brokers, including location histories, to track American citizens.... But in buying your data in bulk on the commercial market, the government is circumventing the Constitution, Supreme Court decisions and federal laws designed to protect your privacy from unwarranted government overreach... Supreme Court cases require police to get a warrant to search a phone or use cellular or GPS location information to track someone. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act's Wiretap Act prohibits unauthorized interception of wire, oral and electronic communications. Despite some efforts, Congress has failed to enact legislation to protect data privacy, the use of sensitive data by AI systems or to restore the intent of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. Courts have allowed the broad electronic privacy protections in the federal Wiretap Act to be eviscerated by companies claiming consent. In my opinion, the way to begin to address these problems is to restore the Wiretap Act and related laws to their intended purposes of protecting Americans' privacy in communications, and for Congress to follow through on its promises and efforts by passing legislation that secures Americans' data privacy and protects them from AI harms. Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader sinij for sharing the article.

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Keir Starmer insisted he will fight the next election and moaned that the voices of 'loyal' Labour MPs are not heard, despite mounting unrest in the party and Cabinet.

Police recorded 530,000 offences in England and Wales last year - a 48 per cent increase on pre-pandemic levels. And retailers estimate that the true figure is far higher.

Tony Fahey, 82, suffered life-changing injuries nearly five years ago when he was hit by a car while out walking.

Alvi Choudhury, 26, was 115 miles from Milton Keynes, a city he had never visited, when an artificial intelligence (AI) system flagged him up for committing a crime there.

For years, the rivalry on the pitch between Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi dominated world football.

We think we know David Attenborough, but what's he really like?

Janet Fordham, 69, was the victim of a 'sustained fraud' between 2017 and 2022, before she mysteriously died after travelling to Africa to meet a man called Daniel 'Kofi' Anyapong.

We're on the Greek island of Zakynthos - recently deemed the busiest tourist spot in Europe - but it's lovely and quiet as we drive through pretty countryside along empty lanes.

The All Stars series, which has been plagued with bullying rows and controversial spats between feuding cast mates descended into chaos last night.

The Towie star was one of the original cast members on the ITV2 reality show but has since stepped away from fame

There's nobody quite as brutally honest as a 10-year-old child. And a new study proves they really don't hold back - especially when it comes to describing old people.

Families hit out today after the migrant was arrested just weeks after he had been moved into their desirable riverside village in Surrey in 'secret' after repeatedly appearing outside the school.

It is now rated a '5' after its previous issues with pest control

Jesy Nelson shared an adorable clip of her twin daughters holding hands on Sunday and said they are her 'whole heart and soul' - amid their SMA battle.