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Evero w n e d a n i Phone?Y o u c ould IN BRIEF

get £ 100sincompensation LONDON’S T UBE T O G ET
A CCESS
4G WEB
A s ervice t o l et passengers
Millions of British i Phone on the L ondon Underground
users c ould receive h undreds use 4G on their d evices will
of pounds in compensation launch in 2019, T ransport f or
from Google, a fter it was London (TfL) has announced.
accused of illegally accessing It follows a s uccessful t rial
people’s i nternet browsing this s ummer in tunnels and
history. platforms on the W aterloo
A m ass l awsuit brought & C ity l ine. Currently, W i-Fi
by consumer-rights is available on platforms, b ut
campaigner R ichard Lloyd there’s n o c onnectivity on
alleges t hat b etween June 2011 trains. Vodafone, O2, Three
and F ebruary 2012 Google and E E t ook part in the t rial,
bypassed the p rivacy settings represented by one. Being p art o f t he claim but TfL h aven’t a nnounced
of Safari, t he iPhone’s default Mr Lloyd, f ormer director o f won’t c ost y ou anything. A ll which network would p rovide
web b rowser. H e c laims Which?, is leading t he case legal f ees a re being p aid by a the s ervice.
Google placed cookies that through the G oogle Y ou Owe ‘third-party f under’, w hich
tracked u sers’ b rowsing, Us group (www.youoweus. will receive a p art o f a ny GOVT EXTENDS H ELP
allowing it to sell p ersonalised co.uk, s ee screenshot). damages awarded. FOR S LOW B ROADBAND
adverts i n s earch r esults. Th is Everyone w ho meets certain Mr Lloyd said: “ By joining The Government has
‘trick’ became k nown as the criteria, w hich i ncludes together, w e c an show Google extended t he Better
‘Safari Workaround’. owning an iPhone between that they can’t get a way with Broadband S cheme, which
If successful, his c ase could 1 J une 2 011 a nd 15 February taking our d ata without our gives p eople w ho can’t g et
force G oogle t o p ay £2.7bn i n 2012, w ill automatically b e consent, a nd that no matter speeds o f 2 Mbps a s ubsidy
compensation to an estimated part of the l awsuit, t hough how l arge and p owerful t hey of up to £350 to look for
5.4m iPhone users, who w ould you’ll still need to sign up to are, nobody i s a bove the l aw”. alternative s olutions, s uch
each receive u p t o £ 500. receive m oney. Google said it will contest as satellite b roadband. It’s
It’s the fi rst c ollective legal To see t he criteria in full the c ase, c laiming it is old a nd available to homes a nd
action in the U K, a p rocedure visit www.youoweus.co.uk/ without merit. It will be heard businesses that can’t b e
more common in the U S. It faqs and c lick question 4. To in the H igh Court, probably reached b y f aster s ervices
allows many individuals to be opt out, r ead q uestion 10. next spring. and a ren’t i n l ocations where
the G overnment plans to roll
‘Good’ hackers t o a ttack N HS in £20m project out 24Mbps b roadband. The
r un until
scheme will now
the e nd of 2018 – a y ear l ater
NHS Digital i s a iming t o hackers, also called ‘white- than first stated. T o a pply v isit
prevent a nother W annaCry- hat’ hackers, a p ractice a lready www.snipca.com/26363.
style c yber-attack b y h iring common in companies and
‘ethical’ hackers t o l ook f or public organisations that use HALF OF PRE TEENS
weaknesses in its cyber- complex c omputer networks. ON SOCIAL MEDIA
defences. They w ill work Cyber-criminals see s uch Half of all c hildren aged
at a n ew £20m security advice f rom N HS Digital a nd organisations as a g oldmine o f 11 and 1 2 h ave a s ocial-
operations centre, s imulating the G overnment t o u pgrade personal information, a s w ell media a ccount d espite t he
attacks i n a p rocess known out-of-date operating s ystems. as potential w eak p oints i n a minimum age typically
as penetration testing. Dan T aylor, h ead o f t he country’s infrastructure. being 13, a ccording t o a
The W a nnaCry ransomware digital s ecurity c entre a t N HS Independent s ecurity e xpert new O fcom r eport ( www.
attack in May c rippled NHS Digital, said the c entre w ould Kevin B eaumont t old t he BBC snipca.com/26379). It
systems in England a nd help the N HS anticipate future that such measuresare “ essential found t hat four in 10 parents
Scotland, causing t he vulnerabilities as well as block in modern-day o rganisations”. have let t heir c hildren set
cancellation of an estimated known t hreats. H e a dded i t He added: “In a n e vent like up an account o n s ites like
19,500 appointments, a lthough will give “health a nd care W a nnaCry, t he centre could Facebook, Instagram and
no personal data was s tolen. It organisations additional help hospitals k now w here Snapchat before r eaching
highlighted h ow susceptible intelligence and s upport they are g etting infected 13. Th e N SPCC called for t he
NHS computers a re to services that they might n ot from in real time, w hich Government to take a ction,
cyber-attack. otherwise be able to access”. was a b ig issue. O rganisations accusing sites of “turning a
A r eport i n O ctober criticised Security e xperts w elcomed were unsure how t hey w ere blind eye” to the p roblem.
NHS trusts for n ot acting on the d ecision t o u se ethical being i nfected”.

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