iTWire Wednesday, 28 April 2021 17:16 Reset Australia says Facebook allows you to target ‘teens interested in smoking’ for $127 Featured Image from Reset Australia website and modified with images from Pixabay
Reset Australia is demanding greater data protections for teenagers after it uncovered a Facebook loophole that allows teenagers to be profiled and targeted with advertising based on a range of age inappropriate interests, such as alcohol, smoking, gambling, and extreme weight loss.
Facebook builds profiles based on interests, and then sells access to these profiles to advertisers for direct, targeted advertising. While underage Facebook users can not be served alcohol, cigarette or gambling ads specifically, in a new report Reset Australia finds a loophole which allows underage profiles to be targeted based on these illicit interests.
Sarwar approves Potohar clean drinking water projects
National
April 28, 2021
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf MNA Sadaqat Ali Abbasi and Chairman Punjab Aab-e-Pak Authority Rawalpindi division Dr Shakeel Ahmed called on Governor Punjab Chaudhry Sarwar at Governor’s House on Tuesday.
Various clean drinking water projects in the Pothohar Region were approved during the meeting. It was decided that an integrated policy would be formulated to ensure safe drinking water supply in the Rawalpindi division as soon as possible and filtration plants will be installed in large localities.
Talking on the occasion, Governor Ch Sarwar said that the Punjab Aab-e-Pak Authority is working expeditiously on new projects worth Rs4 billion and the foundation stone of new drinking water projects in various cities of Punjab will be laid early next month. There will be no discrimination on the basis of government and opposition constituencies but all projects will be executed on merit transparentl
Pipe suspended between mountains brings fresh water to villagers By ZHAO YIMENG | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-04-20 09:06 Share CLOSE A water pipe stretching over 1,480 meters between two lofty mountains that is suspended 600 meters above the ground has brought safe drinking water to 305 households in a village in Hubei province. [Photo/Xinhua]
A water pipe stretching over 1,480 meters between two lofty mountains that is suspended 600 meters above the ground has brought safe drinking water to 305 households in a village in Hubei province.
Nestled in a Karst landform at an average altitude of 600 meters, Longchi village in Changyang Tujia autonomous county endured water shortages for years. But a water project that was completed in June 2019 meant villagers no longer had to rely on drinking rainwater.
Review reveals how dead animals ended up in Akaroa water reservoir
20 Apr, 2021 02:06 AM
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An internal review has revealed how six dead animals ended up in Akaroa s drinking water reservoir. Photo / Hamish Clark
An internal review has revealed how six dead animals ended up in Akaroa s drinking water reservoir. Photo / Hamish Clark
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A scathing internal review has revealed how six dead animals ended up in Akaroa s drinking water reservoir, causing major disruption to the water supply and three cases of water-borne diseases.
The Christchurch City Council review into the drinking water contamination that affected Akaroa and Takamātua earlier this year identifies the poor condition of the L Aube Hill Reserve reservoir as the likely cause.
Singapore reports 1 community infection among 23 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday (April 18,2021). - The Straits Times/ANN
SINGAPORE, April 18 (The Straits Times/ANN): There were 23 new coronavirus cases confirmed as at Sunday noon (April 18), taking Singapore s total to 60,831.
They included 22 imported cases who had been placed on stay-home notice or isolated on arrival in Singapore, said the Ministry of Health (MOH).
There was also one community case.
No new cases were reported within migrant workers dormitories.
On Saturday, four new cases of locally transmitted Covid-19 infection were reported, one of which involved a national serviceman who was due to attend his in-camp training (ICT) at Nee Soon Camp.