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Hello and a warm podcast welcome to yet another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast. We’ve a HOT episode of the podcast lined up for you.

The planet is dying and the chances of us saving it are dwindling. So yeah, we’ll be chatting about that. Surely a podcast can fix it.

We’ve got some positive news about a partnership between the wonderful Chayn and Bumble.

There’s some legitimate concerns about Apple’s new privacy plans, so we’ll be talking about that, and much more...

Joining host Bex we have TFGL team members Greg Ashton and Tom Passmore.

Our special guest is Louise Corden. Louise has been Lead Digital Producer at NSPCC for the last four years, and is just about to move to the Design, Data and Tech team at Citizens Advice.

This week’s topics:

Stat of the week

Not a stat, a fact, we're f*cked:

Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity' - BBC News

And political will is still questionable:

The perverse argument against the bipartisan infrastructure bill: It wants to address climate change - Washington Post

And the likes Facebook allow climate misinformation:

Facebook let fossil-fuel industry push climate misinformation, report finds - The Guardian

Charity news of the week

Chayn to team up with dating app Bumble to provide online trauma support

Tech news of the week

The ethical challenge for Apple of balancing privacy and protecting children:

Apple to scan iPhones for child sex abuse images - BBC News

A protest has already been raised:

whatsapp and privacy experts sound alarm about privacy implications of new apple photo scanning feature - Telegraph

But tech companies can and should do more. NSPCC & IWF recently launched a tool to help young people get nude images of themselves removed from the Web :

New tool for under-18s to report nude photos of themselves online

And finally…

Whilst they might get a bad rep, big cities can actually protect us from depression - Positive.news

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