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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Letters

Check for whom the doorbell tolls

Andrew Cunanan, played by Darren Criss, in  The Assassination of Gianni Versace.
Andrew Cunanan, played by Darren Criss, in The Assassination of Gianni Versace. Photograph: BBC/Jeff Daly/© 2018 Fox and its related entities

I hope Amazon will tell customers for its video-camera doorbells about their obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation that comes into force in May (Report, 1 March). All their callers will have the right to a free copy of their video and conversations, which may make door-stepping a new national sport.
Martyn Thomas
Professor of information technology, Gresham College

• Why have you begun printing TV reviews the morning before the programmes have been shown (The Assassination of Gianni Versace, 28 February and Civilisations, 1 March)? I prefer to watch the programme first then read the review the day after. Shouldn’t it more rightly be called a preview?
Susan Clements
Newcastle upon Tyne

• The cosmetics used in your eyebrow prepping would cost at least £70 (G2, 28 February). Is there not something wrong with society when someone can spend that much on their eyebrows when there are people starving in the world?
Carole Carrell
Southsea, Hampshire

• The US could reduce steel imports by recycling guns (Trump’s promise of steel tariffs, 2 March).
Alasdair McKee
Lancaster

• As a schoolboy taking O-level physics I had difficulty remembering the cycle of the four-stroke internal combustion engine, until I realised that I Can’t Pee Endlessly (Letters, 2 March).
Bruce Holman
Waterlooville, Hampshire

• My problem with mnemonics was summed up in an episode of Frasier. Oh great, now it’s two things I have to remember.
Stuart Mozley
Abingdon, Oxfordshire

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