Google says it will stop selling ads based on people’s browsing histories

BREAKING: Google says it will stop selling ads based on people’s browsing histories and tracking users across the internet – though the new policy doesn’t include mobile apps Google announced the dramatic advertising changes on Wednesday  It said it will stop using and investing in technologies that track users on its Chrome browsers as they … Read more

Security firm Ring works with US police with ‘deadly histories’

Amazon may have banned police from using its facial recognition technology, but a new report shows the tech giant is providing thousands of departments with video and audio footage from Ring. Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit that defends civil liberties, found over 1,400 agencies are working with the Amazon-owned company and hundreds of them have … Read more

Our selection of brilliant military histories: When Churchill was labelled a traitor

TO WAR WITH THE WALKERS by Annabel Venning (Hodder £20, 336 pp) WAR BOOKS OF THE YEAR  TO WAR WITH THE WALKERS   by Annabel Venning (Hodder £20, 336 pp) Wars are fought not by politicians and generals, but by ordinary people called on to do extraordinary things. Like the brothers and sisters of the middle-class … Read more