PAUL RILEY
Reading is a pastime, We can all pursue, There’s nothing like a good book,
To pass an hour or two. Let kids discover the magic, The adventure and the fun, Books are great for relaxation,
And help bring out the sun.
I was just eight years old when I saw AC/DC for the first time at the Apollo in Glasgow.
When they started their set with Riff Raff, it was as if the whole place was going to explode.
That was how music first enveloped me and I’ve been a massive fan ever since.
In 2001, AC/DC played Milton Keynes Bowl on their Stiff Upper Lip tour. Me and my mates decided to go to see them. I was put in charge of transport, even though I was the only one who couldn’t drive.
I hired a transit van. We met at a mate’s house on the Friday night…we had our tickets for the concert, the bevvy and a yellow bucket to pee in.
My mate Tam said to his wife: “Mary, you need to go and sit on that chair…we need the couch’.
We loaded it into the back of the van with the rug and a standard lamp. At Milton Keynes, we set up a little living room scene on the camp site. People came from miles around to see these loonies from Scotland.
A US federal judge has approved the £466 million settlement of a privacy lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly using photo face-tagging and other biometric data without the permission of its users.
US district judge James Donato has approved the deal in a class-action lawsuit that was filed in Illinois in 2015. Nearly 1.6 million Facebook users in the state who submitted claims will be affected.
Judge Donato called it one of the largest settlements ever for a privacy violation.
“It will put at least $345 (£247) into the hands of every class member interested in being compensated,” he wrote, calling it “a major win for consumers in the hotly contested area of digital privacy”.
Facebook, which is headquartered in California, said in a statement: “We are pleased to have reached a settlement so we can move past this matter, which is in the best interest of our community and our shareholders.”
The lawsuit accused the social media giant of violating an Illinois privacy law by failing to get consent from people before using cutting-edge facialrecognition technology to scan photos uploaded by users to create and store faces digitally.