by: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, iNews

The annual report of the Crown Prosecution Service, published this Tuesday, delivered some truly chilling facts and messages. We may have a female PM, powerful women in cabinet, businesses, charities and public services, but young and old females in Britain are less safe than we were ten years ago. Threats and violence against women and girls reached a record level last year. According to Alison Saunders, the director of public prosecutions, the internet and social media are increasingly being used to control, terrorise and humiliate. […]

Do we care?

Privacy is an inviolable human right which is seriously imperilled in our times, and yet most people don’t know or don’t care about this threat. They have no sense of self-preservation and carelessly share everything about themselves with the strangers of the internet.

We are public property, all of us, the rich and poor, famous, infamous and ordinary

Brian Solis, a successful digital analyst and futurist believes “We are the last generation to know privacy as it was”. He is convinced, though, that people will find a way of reclaiming their identities and defining themselves. I’m not so sure.[…]