Today in tech: iPad delays, spies and Facebook privacy

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By Maggie Holland
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Facebook goes geoloco

Facebook is revisiting its privacy policies as it gears up to launch geolocation functionality. PC Pro

Keeping kids safe online

Parents need to do their bit to ensure that children everywhere are able to enjoy using the web safely. BBC

Forget chain mail...

Chain text scams that ask mobile phone owners to forward text messages on could be costing us as much as 286 million, research has revealed. Expert Reviews

BBC apps on hold

Plans to provide news and sports coverage via free iPhone apps have been put on ice by the BBC Trust while it investigates. BBC

Maggie Holland
Maggie Holland

Maggie has been a journalist since 1999, starting her career as an editorial assistant on then-weekly magazine Computing, before working her way up to senior reporter level. In 2006, just weeks before ITPro was launched, Maggie joined Dennis Publishing as a reporter. Having worked her way up to editor of ITPro, she was appointed group editor of CloudPro and ITPro in April 2012. She became the editorial director and took responsibility for ChannelPro, in 2016.

Her areas of particular interest, aside from cloud, include management and C-level issues, the business value of technology, green and environmental issues and careers to name but a few.