There is a very specific — and dangerous — formula for manipulating the media and hijacking the Twitter/cable/conventional media industrial complex. Trump sets this formulaic trap increasingly often. And news organizations keep falling for it.

THE UK GOVERNMENT has committed to pressing ahead with its proposed age verification system, despite acknowledging the mass of inherent flaws.

The system dates back to July 2013, when then-Prime Minister David Cameron outlined plans to require adult websites to have mandatory age filters excluding under-18s. Despite the proposal being underdeveloped and unlikely to make any difference, the government has continued to work on it.

PERSONAL DATA belonging to more than one billion Indians citizens, including thumbprints and retina scans, can be bought online for less than £6, according to an investigation by Indian newspaper Tribune.

The data is stored in what may be the world’s largest state-run biometric database, called Aadhaar; it collects photographs, as well as the thumb prints, retina scans and other identifying information of every Indian citizen.

With device searches at American border crossings reaching an all-time high, the US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) this week tightened its rules for when agents can pull data from phones and computers.

The updated directive [PDF] amends the 2009 CBP border search guidelines to require that agents at least have ”reasonable suspicion” shown before they can use external equipment to connect and copy the contents of devices they encounter at border crossings.

Pupils starting secondary school face ”avalanche of pressure”, England’s children’s commissioner says.

Daniel Gruss didn’t sleep much the night he hacked his own computer and exposed a flaw in most of the chips made in the past two decades by hardware giant Intel Corp (INTC.O).