Snapchat to prompt users to spring clean their friend list

Snapchat recently rolled-out an updated privacy policy for its popular photo-based messaging app. The chat app, which first launched back in 2011, has gained huge traction among younger users. Photos, videos and text messages sent within Snapchat are ephemeral and can’t be viewed again once they have been opened by the recipient. The latest update … Read more

Instagram will prompt users to say if they have been paid to plug products

Instagram will prompt users to say if they have been paid to plug products before they post in bid to stop hidden adverts appearing on social networking site Instagram ‘influencers’ have been criticised for not flagging advertising posts The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is clamping down on the adverts The issue of paid-for endorsements … Read more

Apple Watch will prompt owners to wash their hand properly

Apple’s latest Watch update encourage users to wash their hands properly by showing them a 20-second timer on their wrist while they are doing it.  The firm announced the new feature at their annual Worldwide Developer Conference on Monday alongside a spate of other updates.  Apple said washing hands properly for at least 20 seconds … Read more

Government science experts warn antibody tests could prompt workers to try to catch coronavirus

Employers could shun workers who have not had coronavirus after lockdown, prompting people to actively try to catch the disease or obtain fake test results on the blackmarket, the government’s science experts warned ministers.  Secret documents prepared by the independent Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B) last month outlined the potential drawbacks of introducing … Read more

Coronavirus fears prompt Tesco delivery drivers to advise each other to take the retailer to COURT

Tesco delivery drivers have advised each other to take their employer to court if they have to deliver food to people who ‘they are aware of being in self-isolation’ at home due to the coronavirus.  In a forum for Tesco employees, the drivers questioned whether or not it was a fair request to be asked … Read more