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Argentina, 1985 Leads 2023 Platino Awards NominationsSantiago Miter’s political thriller Argentina, 1985 leads this year’s Platino awards nominations with 14 nods, including Best Director, Screenplay, and Best Ibero-American Fiction Film. Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s latest pic Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths trails with six nominations alongside Spanish filmmaker Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s The Beasts and Lullaby by Alauda Ruiz De Azúa. On the TV side, the Colombian series Noticia de un kidnapping also notched six noms. This year’s Platino awards take place on April 22 at the IFEMA Municipal Palace in Madrid. Check out the full list of nominations here.

A Wigan company has been fined after making 'persistent' and 'aggressive' spam calls that attempted to capitalise on the pandemic.

Food delivery company HelloFresh has been fined £140,000 after a seven-month spamming campaign of 79 million emails and one million text messages.

Greater Manchester Police has been issued with an enforcement notice by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) over the force's 'repeated failures' to respond to requests made under the Freedom of Information Act, it was revealed today.

The UK's information watchdog has said Snapchat may be required to 'stop processing data' related to its AI chatbot after issuing a preliminary enforcement notice against the technology business.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent LOCARNO — Marianly Tejada, star of Netflix hit “One of Us Is Lying,” and Jean Jean, multi-prized for “Woodpeckers,” are attached to headline “Predicament” (“Predicamento”), an action-thriller written, produced and to be directed by Dominican Republic’s Ico Abréu. A step up into the mainstream, but maintaining the social issue focus of much of Abréu’s TV and experimental work of the past two decades, “Predicament” is shaping up as one of the major propositions in preparation from the Dominican Republic, thanks to its star cast, government backing, thriller propulsion and growing bevy of production partners.

An SNP MP's bid to have the draft economic forecast sent to the Tory Government before its disastrous mini-budget published has been upheld.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent TikTok has been fined more than $15 million by Britain’s data watchdog for failing to enforce rules under which children under the age of 13 are not allowed to use the social media platform without parental consent. The U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on Tuesday said the Chinese-owned video app didn’t do enough to prevent “up to 1.4 million UK children” under the age of 13 from using the platform since 2020, despite the fact that the company’s own rules ban the practice.  “There are laws in place to make sure our children are as safe in the digital world as they are in the physical world. TikTok did not abide by those laws,” ISO Commissioner John Edwards said in a statement.

TikTok has been fined £12.7M ($15.9M) by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for several breaches of children’s data protection law.

TikTok has been fined £12.7 million for a number of data protection law breaches, including failing to use children's personal data lawfully.

UK media bosses are toasting a 'huge victory' for press freedom after police chiefs ruled that people charged with a crime do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy.

Police chiefs say they will not be changing their advice regarding the naming of suspects charged with criminal offences.

Naman Ramachandran There are considerable ethnic, economic and geographical inequalities across the U.K. cinema exhibition workforce, a new survey has revealed.The survey was conducted by the Independent Cinema Office (ICO), the U.K.’s national body that supports independent cinemas through programming, training, consultancy and cultural distribution and the Bridge Group, a non-profit consultancy that uses research to promote social equality.

Virgin Media has been fined £50,000 for sending marketing emails to customers who had not consented to receiving them, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said.

Dark Souls series seems a world away from Ico’s gentle, introspective, and minimalist world.

social media influencer that she works for them. Zara, Asos and Pretty Little Thing say they’ve got nothing to do with Yvonne McCuaig, whose illegal business practices were exposed by the Sunday Mail.

social media “influencer” is behind a series of bogus sales firms that pestered people with more than half a million unwanted cold calls. Yvonne McCuaig portrays herself living a life of luxury and designer gear to her 87,000 ­followers on Instagram.

PAISLEY DAILY EXPRESS: Live news as it happensMark, who lives in Lounsdale Drive in Foxbar, has an allocated garden space within the grounds of the block-of-four flats.However, he claims he has felt he has been unable to use it since March 2020 when the Ring doorbell camera was installed.The 55-year-old has lived in the property for nine years, and says he feels like his privacy is being invaded as it films directly onto his garden.But he says he is getting nowhere with the local authority to

PAISLEY DAILY EXPRESS: Live news as it happensMark, who lives in Lounsdale Drive in Foxbar, has an allocated garden space within the grounds of the block-of-four flats.However, he claims he has felt he has been unable to use it since March 2020 when the Ring doorbell camera was installed.The 55-year-old has lived in the property for nine years, and says he feels like his privacy is being invaded as it films directly onto his garden.But he says he is getting nowhere with the local authority to

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