As the fallout from ABC's decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel continues, several prominent US TV hosts used their platforms on Thursday night to criticise the decision to suspend Kimmel.
On this way back from the UK, President Donald Trump suggested that if any TV network give him bad press, "maybe their licence should be taken away".
On Monday night, Kimmel made remarks about the reaction to Charlie Kirk's killing, including that "many in MAGA land are working very hard to capitalise on the murder of Charlie Kirk".
He also mocked President Trump’s reaction when asked by a reporter how he was coping with the death of his friend.
David and Katie discuss 'cancel’ versus ‘consequence’ culture and what this means for free speech in the US.
Phone data for sale
Prime Time reporter Kate McDonald also joined David and Katie to reveal how she and the team investigated the sale of phone data.
She explained how the report came about and why there are national security concerns given that this data is available to purchase but its sale is not illegal.
Phones in a data cohort analysed by Prime Time could be tracked back to specific addresses after entering high-security prisons, military bases - and even Leinster House.
Kate explained that they were able to piece together where people lived.
"We got access to the movements of tens of thousands of Irish devices from a data broker," she said.
"From that we were able to map those locations, and we were able to find devices in very secure areas… but we could then track those people back to home addresses".
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Kate said people may have given their consent to be tracked while using certain apps.
"Through that process we did identify people but the argument that the companies would make is that they have consent," she said.
"In the terms and conditions of those apps, there's a privacy policy or some part of the terms and conditions [that] will say 'you consent to us tracking your location and selling it on’.
"Nobody ever reads them".
The sample data contained the movement of 64,000 phones in Ireland over two weeks in April.
Kate said there are also wider security concerns here.
"There are so many risks to anyone working in a sensitive location in terms of them being followed or potentially kidnapped," she said.
"But it’s also the wider point of national security: there could be state actors or non-state actors [or] drug cartels that are often on the Irish waters that would love to have this information".
The Data Protection Commission has said it is "extremely concerned."
"We are currently working to identify the data broker in question and if they are headquartered in Ireland, we will take action ourselves. However, if they are headquartered in another EU country we will engage with the relevant data protection authority to deal with the matter," it said in a statement.
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