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You and Yours: Temu Data Sharing, Paying with Cash, HS2 Cancellation

Temu Data Sharing, Paying with Cash, HS2 Cancellation

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Temu Data Sharing, Paying with Cash, HS2 Cancellation

Temu data sharing warning. The rise in cash payments. HS2 cancellation in the north.

The shopping app accused of 'aggressively' sharing customers’ data. Why cash payments have become popular again. The fallout from the scrapped HS2 Northern route.

A new report by the financial analyst Grizzly Research warns that the Temu app which is popular on social media might be "aggressively" harvesting users’ data without their permission. Temu is an online superstore run by a Chinese company. It’s been described as a cut-price Amazon and has signed up millions of customers since it launched in the UK in April this year. Some of its top selling items at the moment include a handheld massage gun for £10.89 and a telescopic floor mop for £4.48. We speak to Alan Woodward, Professor of Cyber Security at Surrey University and Sarah Widd, a You and Yours listener from Kent who's a big fan of Temu.

Research by UK Finance, the body which represents banks, says that payments in cash have increased for the first time in 10 years. Notes and coins had been on the wane since 2012 with card spending overtaking them in 2017. Our reporter, Julian Paszkiewicz, goes to West Yorkshire, to talk to people who are still paying in cash to find out why. We also hear from Adrian Buckle, Head of Research at UK, about why cash is becoming more popular again.

We look at the fallout from the cancellation of the HS2 rail link between Birmingham and Manchester. We ask what it means for people who’ve already had their lives disrupted by compulsory purchase orders for property and land. We hear from a farmer in Staffordshire who lost 40 acres of his 100-acre site for the planned Phase 2a route up to Crewe. We also speak to a home owner in Didsbury in South Manchester who’d been told a tunnel was going to be built on the ground beneath his house. 


Presenter: Winifred Robinson
Producer: Tara Holmes

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