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Cookies are a way for organisations to collect data from people who visit their site or app. You might see banners popping up on sites you visit asking you to accept or decline them. Maria Clara Montoya from the What in the World team explains how cookies work and why we often see that choice.

Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, has rolled out a paid-subscription version of their social media sites for users in Europe. If you pay the subscription you don鈥檛 get advertisements and Meta says it doesn鈥檛 get your data. If you don鈥檛 pay, the sites get your data and you see ads. Meta says they鈥檙e doing this to comply with European Union laws on data collection.

But some privacy campaigners say people shouldn鈥檛 have to pay if they don鈥檛 want to share their data. Privacy expert and campaigner Alexander Hanff, known as That Privacy Guy, explains what happens to our data when we browse online.

And Bipana Dhakal, founder of 鈥淭he Learning Fortress鈥� in Nepal, explains how you can keep your online data safe.

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Presenter: William Lee Adams
Producers: Emily Horler, Maria Clara Montoya and Adam Chowdhury
Editor: Julia Ross-Roy