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Porn licensing isn't the answer
Digital & Computing

Porn licensing isn't the answer

...law to check the ages of people accessing their content by asking for credit card details or other personal information that can be verified on an official database of some kind. Sites like the BBC’s iPlayer have already introduced age restriction tools) – a very good system that gives parents full control of what can be watched. The problem is, when parents are less...
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EdTech Evidence: What works and why
Education & Development

EdTech Evidence: What works and why

...laws and regulations that EdTech needs to follow are those of other data processors. Questions around data privacy, security, ownership, and secure storage are important, as well as questions specifically relevant to AI. Several rights-oriented perspectives on EdTech companies’ treatise of children’s data, such as those produced by the 5Rights Foundation, are key to...
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The impact of COVID-19 on linguists and their mental health
Languages

The impact of COVID-19 on linguists and their mental health

...law or public services, they are routinely exposed to challenging situations the general population would never encounter. With the pandemic, their work has become even more stressful. The majority of translators work as freelancers and they have been adversely affected by the economic consequences of the pandemic. Many have lost key clients and valuable income. For these...
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From Astrobiology to Parliament
Science, Maths & Technology

From Astrobiology to Parliament

...laws that directly affect people. This would be a good point to explain how the POST fellowship scheme works. What did you do during your fellowship? One of POST’s functions is to produce impartial, accessible briefings that bring together research on topics of current interest, for use by parliamentarians – both MPs and peers. The topics to be researched are decided...
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Mass surveillance will never be able to stop all known terrorists
Society, Politics & Law

Mass surveillance will never be able to stop all known terrorists

...laws such as section 127 of the Communications Act 2003, which criminalises offensive speech. Equally, perhaps he might care to clarify how exactly the further expansion of mass surveillance in the UK is supposed stop known terrorists committing murder. After all, we already have mass surveillance in the UK, as a cursory search for “Snowden”, “Tempora”,...
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Nos Galan Gaeaf: the traditional Welsh celebration being eclipsed by modern Halloween
History & The Arts

Nos Galan Gaeaf: the traditional Welsh celebration being eclipsed by modern Halloween

...laws, detailed in 13th-century manuscripts, but those references are disappointingly prosaic. And, it is only in the modern period that we have references to Nos Galan Gaeaf customs, exhaustively catalogued in the 20th century by the historian, Trefor M. Owen. [Black and white photograph of Ty Canol woods, Pembrokeshire]Beware the lurking Hwch Ddu Gwta and the Ladi Wen....
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In-car technology: are we being sold a false sense of security?
Digital & Computing

In-car technology: are we being sold a false sense of security?

...law allows them to do so providing their hands are on the wheel. This implies it is a safe alternative. But research clearly shows that the driving behaviour and crash risk of a phone-using driver (whether that is hand-held or hands-free) is similar to, and sometimes worse than, that of a drunk driver. Our research has shown that phone use carries a significant cost to a...
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How do we learn language?
Education & Development

How do we learn language?

...law, art and medicine. The rise to our current position of influence is hard to imagine were we not able to share our thoughts and work together with this thing we call language – the powerful mind-manipulation tool that I am using right now to get these ideas from my head to yours without the need for surgery. Despite language being an extraordinarily complex system of...
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