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Facebook will pay you to let it track what you do on your phone Posted By   Dorcas Abedu-Kennedy  -   June 12, 2019 6:44 am 277   0   Facebook   WhatsApp Facebook will once again begin paying people to monitor how they use their phone through a new app called Study. The app will monitor which apps are installed on a person’s phone, the time spent using those apps, the country you’re in, and additional app data that could reveal specific features you’re using, among other things. Facebook says it won’t see any specific content, however, including messages, passwords, and websites you visit. Study’s launch comes several months after the company’s last user-tracking research app, Facebook Research, was shut down due to a pair of controversies: as TechCrunch reported, the app was marketed to teens, and on the iPhone, it relied on a special certificate that allowed the app to circumvent the App Store and gain...
Go for your dead bodies – Health Ministry to bereaved families This is not the first time mortuary workers in the country have laid down their tools The Ministry of Health has assured bereaved families that they can still go for dead bodies of their loved ones from mortuaries of public health facilities. “We have made an alternative arrangement for families to go for their bodies and we have also done follow-ups to ensure that it is successful. The information we received from the facilities indicate that there is no cause for alarm because they are open”, the Ministry of Health spokesperson has said. The statement from the ministry comes days after mortuary workers declared a strike promising only to return to work if the government meets their demands. Mortuary Workers Association of Ghana (MWAG) is demanding a 300 % increment in their basic salary taking effect from 2019 and also want to retire on their increased salary among other requests. But Public Relations Offi...