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Hezbollah had decided to equip members with low-tech pagers for communicating rather than smartphones which it feared could be used by Israel, its arch-enemy, to gather sensitive information about the group.

Children as young as seven are being given smartphones, with some primary school pupils consuming harmful misogynistic content, a headteacher has said.

Just before the war, an estimated 92% of young adults in Gaza between 18 and 29 had access to the internet, and 83% owned smartphones.

San Diego is on the way to becoming the first city in the nation to ban grocery stores from offering digital-only coupons, citing a lack off access to the internet and smartphones by some shoppers.

When books were replaced with smartphones, it was easy to blame the screens instead.