More than one in six households struggling to afford broadband in UK
With UK lockdown persisting and education online until March at the earliest, research finds broadband customers in receipt of low-income benefits almost twice as likely to struggle to pay their bill than other customers
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At a time when people are reliant on broadband to work, learn and order essentials in the third UK lockdown, research from UK information and guidance service Citizens Advice has made the alarming discovery that large swathes of the UK population are struggling to pay their broadband bill.
The company’s use of a less-restrictive censorship regime attracted new scrutiny after the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. Google and Apple removed Parler from their app stores, and Amazon Web Services took Parler offline.
Critics also accuse Parler of data mining: Collecting extensive information about users that can be used for commercial or political purposes.
According to a cached version of Parler’s privacy policy updated in December, Parler said it collected a wide swath of personal information that included Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, passport numbers, bank account numbers, credit card numbers and much more.
“Parler’s collection of highly sensitive information like Social Security numbers and driver’s licenses to enable certain features is pretty far outside the norm for social media platforms and not something you see on Twitter or Facebook,” said Zach Graves, policy chief at Lincoln Network, a nonprofit group focused on bridging the gap be
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The DTG (Digital TV Group), in partnership with Digital Catapult, Global Wireless Solutions, O2 Telefónica, Rohde & Schwarz, has successfully secured Government funding to develop a 5G mobile based platform to broadcast events in stadiums and other venues.
Boasting pre-existing relationships built on successful R&D work and 5G trials, the collaboration is designed to bring together complementary skills from across the whole mobile media delivery ecosystem from devices to networks to broadcast to content and to venues. The consortium plans to provide enhanced interactive viewing experiences direct to devices in stadia and at other select locations, using 5G broadcast also known as FeMBMS: further enhanced multimedia broadcast multicast service. The objective of the consortium s VISTA (Video In Stadia Technical Architecture) project is to test and demonstrate consumer benefits and technical feasibility of using 5G FeMBMS technology.
Data from Global Wireless Solutions shows daily users on Parler nearly doubled following the Capitol riots.
Users of the social media application, which eschews moderation, were more likely to be Caucasian, over 45, and upper middle class, according to GWS.
After the election, Parler users prioritized the NewsMax app over the FoxNews app, GWS said
Oklahoma, Wyoming, and West Virginia had the most Parler users relative to their population, according to new data from the firm Global Wireless Solutions (GWS).
Parler, the social media network embraced by conservatives for its eschewing of the moderation found on Facebook or Twitter, has been continually implicated in the attack on the Capitol, as a platform on which some users planned their deadly siege. GPS data shows hundreds of Parler users were involved in the attack on the Capitol last week.