Hello and welcome to the media year 2018. In the next half an hour, we are going to look at the intersection between technology and the media over the past 12 months, a golden age of tv and audio and the increasing impact of data on all our lives. This has been the year of the techlash, a global backlash against Silicon Valleys Biggest Companies prompted by controversies over privacy, misinformation, foreign interference and much else besides. And one company has been in the spotlight and feeling the heat more than any other. Facebooks wobbles and worries morphed into constant woe. Revelations emerged about a british data firm, Cambridge Analytica, misusing data on a massive scale. When the revelations first came to light, the Company Aggressively said this was not a data breach. The truth is it could have been something much worse. The mass harvesting of the personal data of tens of millions of people without them knowing about it. In the uk, the Parliamentary Select Committee looking
Dame june whitfield, whos died at the age of 93. In a career spanning six decades, damejune starred in more than a thousand tv and radio programmes, including the sitcoms terry and june and absolutely fabulous. Two people are reported to have been killed in bangladesh, as polls opened in a general election, where the prime minister, sheikh hasina, is seeking a third successive term. More than 100 Million People are eligible to vote. Heavy security is in place after a campaign marred by violence and allegations of a crackdown against the opposition. Mothers and babies in england will be offered better support under new maternity plans announced by the health secretary. Specialist staff for newborns and extra funding for intensive care, are just some of the measures designed to halve the number of stillbirths, maternal and infant deaths by 2025. More than 1800 babies in the uk died before they were a month old, in 2017. Take a look at these pictures from japan, which has been hit by heav
The bbcs amol rajan gives his take on the last 12 months in review 2018 the media year. Hello and welcome to the media year 2018. In the next half an hour, we are going to look at the intersection between technology and the media over the past 12 months, a golden age of tv and audio and the increasing impact of data on all our lives. This has been the year of the techlash, a global backlash against Silicon Valleys Biggest Companies prompted by controversies over privacy, misinformation, foreign interference and much else besides. And one company has been in the spotlight and feeling the heat more than any other. Facebooks wobbles and worries morphed into constant woe. Revelations emerged about a british data firm, Cambridge Analytica, misusing data on a massive scale. When the revelations first came to light, the Company Aggressively said this was not a data breach. The truth is it could have been something much worse. The mass harvesting of the personal data of tens of millions of peo
Hello and welcome to the media year 2018. In the next half an hour, we are going to look at the intersection between technology and the media over the past 12 months, a golden age of tv and audio and the increasing impact of data on all our lives. This has been the year of the techlash, a global backlash against Silicon Valleys Biggest Companies prompted by controversies over privacy, misinformation, foreign interference and much else besides. And one company has been in the spotlight and feeling the heat more than any other. Facebooks wobbles and worries morphed into constant woe. Revelations emerged about a british data firm, Cambridge Analytica, misusing data on a massive scale. When the revelations first came to light, the Company Aggressively said this was not a data breach. The truth is it could have been something much worse. The mass harvesting of the personal data of tens of millions of people without them knowing about it. In the uk, the Parliamentary Select Committee looking
When the revelations first came to light, the Company Aggressively said this was not a data breach. The truth is it could have been something much worse. The mass harvesting of the personal data of tens of millions of people without them knowing about it. In the uk, the Parliamentary Select Committee looking into fake news and misinformation has repeatedly called for facebooks chief executive and chairman Mark Zuckerberg to appear in front of it. Hes repeatedly declined. But he did turn up when summoned by us congress. It was the interrogation he feared and had long resisted. Mark zuckerberg has never testified before congress. And now with the eyes of the world on him, this moment in the spotlight promised high drama and delivered it. In his prepared statement, zuckerberg said this was on him. We didnt take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a big mistake. And it was my mistake, and im sorry. I started facebook, i run it and im responsible for what happens here. T