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The run-up to my prostate examination | Brief letters

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At the doctor’s | Phone safety | Passwords | Heinz advert Lucy Mangan, writing about her doctor joking about her kidneys ( Digested week, 4 October ), reminded me of having an examination for an enlarged prostate. As I lay on the couch waiting for the procedure, my doctor said: “In accordance with …

Change the law on computer evidence with an amendment to data protection bill | Letter

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A group of software experts and barristers who have been supporting the subpostmasters affected by the Post Office Horizon miscarriages of justice call for changes to the bill going through the House of Lords It is now clear that the Post Office was advised by its lawyers to delay …

A penny per email could curb our enormous data use | Letters

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Mike McClelland proposes a 1p charge for messages in response to an article on the downside of Ireland’s datacentre boom. Plus a letter from Sue Stephenson The long read ( Power grab: the hidden costs of Ireland’s datacentre boom, 15 February ) highlights the enormous cost in terms of …

PSNI bosses’ blase attitude to data leak that has put my family at risk | Letter

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A serving member of Police Service Northern Ireland on the sacrifices that have been made and the lack of support from the top I’m a serving officer with the Police Service of Northern Ireland, from a nationalist background in West Belfast. I couldn’t join the RUC because …