Google has unveiled four measures it will use to tackle the spread of terror-related material online.Among the measures it is deploying will be smarter software that can spot extremist material and greater use of human experts to vet content.It said terrorism was an ”attack on open societies” and tackling its influence was a critical challenge.It said it had worked hard to remove terrorist content for a long time but acknowledged that more had to be done.The steps it plans to take were outlined in an editorial published in the Financial Times newspaper.The steps apply mainly to Google’s video sharing site YouTube.It said it would:put more engineering resources into training software that uses ”machine learning” to identify videos glorifying terrorism and violencerecruit more people to act as ”trusted flaggers” who could make final decisions about videos its software struggled to classifytake a tougher stance on videos that violated YouTube policiesexpand the work it did to help counter-radicalisation efforts

Bilvärderingssajten Hurmycket.com toppar Konsument Europas lista på vad svenska konsumenter klagar mest på, hittills under 2017.– Det var inte tydligt på något sätt att tjänsten kostade pengar. Så fort jag fick svar att det skulle kosta 800 kronor hoppade hjärtat till och jag blev jättenervös, säger Marie Tallsäter från Huddinge till SVT:s konsumentredaktion Plus. Det var efter att Marie Tallsäter klickat på en annons i sociala medier som hon fick skriva in sin bils registreringsnummer för att få den värderad. Enligt henne framgick inte någonstans att det var en betaltjänst. Men väldigt snart fick hon ett krav om betalning och fick dessutom veta att hon ska ha frånsagt sig rätten att ångra köpet. Detta trots att hon hört av sig till företaget redan tio minuter efter bilvärderingen och långt innan själva resultatet av värderingen hunnit komma.

THE GOP’S 2016 presidential upset wasn’t surprising just because it put Donald Trump in the White House; it also proved the party had vastly improved its ability to exploit data, including precision ad targeting campaigns on Facebook. Now comes the fallout of all that information hoarding: A California-based security researcher says Republican-linked election databases were inadvertently exposed to the entire internet, sans password, potentially violating the privacy of almost every single registered voter in the United States.