UK PRIME MINISTER Theresa May has called for ‘internet companies’ to do more to tackle the spread of extremist material in the wake of the London Bridge terror attack.In a speech given on Sunday morning, May once again shook her fist in the direction of Google, Facebook and Twitter, and said that existing online “safe spaces” that allow terrorism to “breed” must be eradicated.”We cannot allow this ideology the safe space it needs to breed. Yet that is precisely what the internet – and the big companies that provide internet-based services – provide,” May said.”We need to work with allied, democratic governments to reach international agreements that regulate cyberspace to prevent the spread of extremism and terrorist planning. And we need to do everything we can at home to reduce the risks of extremism online.”

Shopping apps let you buy fast on your phone and offer discounts and rewards when you shop in-store. But for some retail apps, that convenience has a price: privacy. The way retailers online track your shopping habits with cookies, some brick-and-mortar retailers are using apps that access your phone’s GPS to track your location in the real world.The tip-off may be the timing of notifications that pop up when you are in close proximity to a store. We asked shoppers in Philadelphia if they had any unusually well timed app notifications.One woman said that when she came to a certain location on 69th Street on her walk to work, an ad for the Gap popped up offering her a coupon to go shopping. Another shopper said the Urban Outfitters app seemed to know where he was, “Whenever I come within like 50 feet I get like, ‘hey did you know there’s a sale ending in a couple days?'” And others wondered why apps from Target and Macy’s asked to access their location when they were installed.According to University of Pennsylvania professor Joseph Turow, many shopping apps now use a phone’s GPS to access your location.”They have technologies that can follow you as you walk through sectors of the store and can connect to your data, so they know who you are,” he said.

If your kid racked up hundreds of dollars on your credit card for virtual “gems” on Amazon, your share of $70 million in refunds is finally on its way.Along with Apple and Google, the ecommerce giant settled with the FTC in 2014 over allegations that it had insufficient safeguards to prevent children from making unauthorized in-app purchases.These especially included virtual currency in games bought through the Amazon store that gave players a boost.Play Facebook TwitterEmbed Amazon Refunding $70 Million For Unapproved Purchases Made by Children 1:31The FTC’s suit explained how “a child may be prompted to use or acquire seemingly fictitious currency, including a ‘boatload of doughnuts, a can of stars and bars of gold,’ but in reality the child is making an in-app purchase using real money.”This case demonstrates what should be a bedrock principle for all companies — you “must get customers’ consent before you charge them,” said Thomas B. Pahl, acting director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection in a press release. “Consumers affected by Amazon’s practices can now be compensated for charges they didn’t expect or authorize.”