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Tech World: Airbnb fights modern slavery, Uber hints at expansion plans and more

Tech World

Welcome to Tech World, your quick roundup of some of the top technology news stories from across the globe.

This month, we bring you the latest on Airbnb’s plans to fight modern slavery, Facebook’s issues in Belgium and more. For this episode’s Hot Topic interview, we spoke to EY’s Sue Robinson about gender parity.

First though, here are your top international stories.

Airbnb fights modern slavery

Sharing economy giant Airbnb will invest in new tech in a bid to clamp down on modern slavery amid reports that traffickers are using its properties as “pop-up brothels”.

Airbnb told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that it would be teaming up with an anti-trafficking charity to train staff, develop new systems and work with the authorities to pin point signs of slavery....