Aleks Krotoski is joined by Jemima Kiss, Samuel Gibbs and Alex Hern. The tech team discuss a series of recent updates by key online services including Amazon's subscription book service, Twitter's enhanced chat function and Facebook's "buy" button.

Also the team discuss Edward Snowden's recent address to the Hope conference in New York, in which he appealed to developers and hackers to use their skills to enhance our privacy online and protect our digital rights.

The team look at the curtailing of data by the Irish government, which deemed that its genealogy portal was in some cases breaching people's privacy.

Finally Aleks talks to psychologist Prof Monica Whitty, an expert in digitally mediated relationships and author of Cyberspace Romance: The Psychology of Online Relationships. Monica discusses the recent spate of films such as Spike Jonze's Her and Terry Gilliam's The Zero Theorem, which delve into our growing reliance on the digital world for emotional fulfilment. Also Monica discusses her work into the cyber-crime of online romance scams and the destructive power of these virtual relationships.