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🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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We look at a particular use of tech in family life - using trackers to know where your children are, or your partner, or other relatives. What are the safety and privacy issues ?
Also on Tech Life: Shiona McCallum speaks to the BBC's cyber correspondent, Joe Tidy, about a gang of Russian hackers known as Evil Corps. Who are they, and what have they done ? Joe is co-hosting a new podcast about them.
And a young engineer from Kenya has developed an app for deaf people, so they can read sign language on a screen while people speak to them in real-time. It's just earned him a prestigious award.
Presenter: Shiona McCallum Producer: Tom Quinn
(Image: A photo of a mother and teenage daughter at home, using a laptop and smartphone. Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:07.3 | Hello, I'm Kimberly Wilson. |
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| 0:35.8 | Hello and welcome to TechLife on the BBC World Service, |
| 0:39.9 | the programme about technology and its impact on all our lives. |
| 0:43.8 | I'm Shona McCallum. |
| 0:45.0 | This week we're looking at one particular use of tech in family life |
| 0:48.5 | using trackers to know where your children are |
| 0:50.9 | or your partner or other relatives. |
| 0:53.1 | That's in a moment. |
| 0:55.6 | Also today I speak to the BBC cyber correspondent Joe Tidy about a gang of Russian hackers known as Evilcore. Just who are |
| 1:03.1 | they and what have they done? Joe's co-hosting a new podcast about them and a young engineer from Kenya |
| 1:09.5 | has developed an app for deaf people so they can read sign language on a screen while people speak to them in real time. It's just earned him a prestigious award. We're starting this week's tech life talking about parenting in the digital age. |
| 1:42.7 | A challenge I'm sure many mums and dads listening will relate to. |
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