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• Technology developed to track spread of coronavirus could be abused, privacy campaigner warns

  A medical privacy campaigner says technology developed to track the spread of COVID-19 is a new form of surveillance that could be abused.

• What can Google searches tell us about bullying during the pandemic?

  Schools should be taking more responsibility to tackle cyber bullying, according to an anti-bullying charity, after an analysis of Google search data by Sky News reveals the link between schooling and online abuse.

• 'Massive cyber attack' shuts down Ukraine government websites

  Ukraine has been hit by a "massive cyber attack", knocking a number of key government websites offline and issuing a warning to the public to "expect the ​​​​​​​worst".

• YouTube's best paid stars revealed - with creator, 23, who made £39m in 2021 topping the list

  YouTube's highest-paid stars have been revealed, with a 23-year-old creator who made £39m in 2021 topping the list.

• Google paves way to expand UK workforce with £730m office investment

  Google is to invest £730m in expanding its office space in London, paving the way to increase staff numbers in the UK by more than 50%.

• Scientists develop new test that reliably predicts return or spread of deadliest skin cancer

  Scientists have developed a new test that reliably predicts the spread, or return, of the deadliest form of skin cancer.

• Facebook in the UK being sued for billions over claims users' data was exploited

  Facebook in the UK is being sued for billions of pounds amid claims more than 44 million users had their data exploited.

• Oldest ever confirmed human fossils are even older than previously thought

  Some of the oldest ever fossils to have been affirmatively identified as belonging to Homo sapiens have been discovered to be even older than previously thought.

• Police 'blamed victims' and failed to connect reports about prolific online sexual predator

  A prolific online sexual predator was caught only after investigators at the FBI contacted the UK's National Crime Agency despite more than a dozen of his victims reporting him to British police beforehand, Sky News has learnt.

• Facebook loses bid to dismiss antitrust lawsuit demanding it sells WhatsApp and Instagram

  Meta has lost an attempt to dismiss a US Federal Trade Commission antitrust lawsuit which could force the company to sell WhatsApp and Instagram.