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Instagram baby account
DJ Khaled documented his fiancé giving birth to their newborn son via Snapchat in 2016. Asahd’s account features more than 350 posts and the one-year-old already has a huge 1.8m followers.
It is worth noting that Instagram guidelines require users to be at least 13 years old before they can create an account.
misuse of privacy- BBC
Sir Cliff Richard, who is suing the BBC, says coverage of a police search on his home in August 2014 after a sex assault allegation left him feeling “forever tainted” because of the misuse of private information and breaking data protection rules
jessie j
Singer Jessie J wins Chinese equivalent of X-Factor- singer 2018
Johnson Beharry - Good Morning Britain
ex gang member to war her appeared on GMB. he set up a campaign called JBVC foundation which aims to assist young people to leave street gangs & develop sustainable careers April 2018
Facebook privacy settings
In 2015 Aleksandr Kogan collected direct messages sent to and from Facebook users who installed his This Is Your Digital Life app of around 87million people. Then in March 2018, it emerged that Cambridge Analytica may not have actually deleted the data.(UK-based political propaganda firm that’s believed to have worked on both the Brexit and Trump campaigns.)
allegations against Cambridge Analytica?
It used personal information harvested from more than 50 million Facebook profiles without permission to build a system that could target US voters with personalised political advertisements based on their psychological profile
coffee chain Starbucks April 2018
Coffee chain Starbucks is to close more than 8,000 company-owned branches in the US for an afternoon next month to carry out “racial bias” training after the firm had to apologise over last week’s arrest of two black men who were waiting to meet someone in a Starbucks in Philadelphia. The aim is to prevent discrimination in Starbucks stores.a
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Banking Group has announced that 49 branches will be closed.
Those closures, along with reorganisation elsewhere at the bank, will affect 1,230 jobs. Lloyds has been reducing the size of its network as customers have switched to online and telephone banking
Royal family
23rd April Kate in labour had a boy - lack of privacy
12th April - Alfie protest
Hundreds of people have staged a protest outside alder hey hospital where a terminally ill toddler is being cared for
Martin lewis
Martin Lewis is suing Facebook over claims it has published more than 50 bogus adverts bearing his name, many of which have been used to scam thousands of pounds out of people.
Tobias ellwood
Tobias Ellwood banned his family from using all mobile devices on their latest holiday, as he fears we are all “addicted” to our gadgets.
April
Malala yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who became an activist for female education after being shot for going to school in 2012 , and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in 2014
Golden globes - Jan 2018
Activists for the times up movement asked people to wear black and to speak about the survivors of sexual abuse and harassment
Oprah Winfrey quote
For too long women have not been heard or believed if they dare speak the truth to the power of men . But there time is up
Golden globes statistics
Overall the awards show drew 3.3 million tweets - Jan 2018
Throughout the night viewers tweeted about #TimesUp roughly 473,900 times.
178,500 #WhyIWearBlack
174,300 #MeToo movement.
April 2018 passenger on aeroplane
Passenger in a southwest airline flight live streamed a video during an engine exploding
Aeroplane passenger being criticised
Bobby Laurie spotted a major problem - almost all passengers wore the mask wrong -his tweet went viral.
“ put down the phone , stop with the selfies … and listen - cover your nose and mouth with the mask
Royal baby name bets
People are betting on what the baby is going to be called
black panther - feb 2018
Black Panther, delivers not only an overwhelmingly black cast, but a host of strong female characters
Saudi Arabia
Black Panther to become first film shown in Saudi Arabian cinemas in 35 years after the cinema ban
why were cinemas closed in Saudi Arabia
As a political response to an increase in Islamist activism, including the 1979 seizure of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the government closed all cinemas and theaters.
Stephen Lawrence day
Prime Minister Theresa May reveals April 22 is to become ‘Stephen Lawrence Day’
A group of up to six thugs attacked the teenager and his friend Duwayne Brooks, simply because they were black, however only two of them were convicted of murder.
suffragette statue
A statue commemorating the life of the suffragist, Millicent Fawcett, has been unveiled opposite Parliament.
She campaigned for women’s right to vote during the early 20th Century and is seen as one of the most influential feminists of the past 100 years.
The only historical figures commemorated there were men.
