Saturday, 21 January 2017

Gender Stereotype Outrage

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38678540

This article is about how supermarkets cards are guiding children in ways that are sexist. The cost of making cards is at 1.7bn a year and by changing what they are producing would cost them. Although the supermarket has argued that changing these cards would be a quick process. This also affected Lego as well, but they have seemed to have made a change around by changing some products to the customer needs.

Personal Data being shared

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38694016

This article was about how companies had been selling peoples personal information over the age of 50, mainly for their pensions to try to con them into giving money away and moving their money. As a result of this the government have decided to stop cold calling overall, even to people who do not have an issue with marketing calls.