The new breed of camera-equipped streetlights has the potential to fight crime and track down missing persons. Or will it just take Britain one step closer to a surveillance state?How would you feel if your neighbourhood...
Read MoreDoctors and MPs urge more scrutiny of £300m deal for company behind system used by most GPs in EnglandA US private equity firm will take control of NHS patient records in a deal experts say should “ring alarm bells” amid...
Read MoreExclusive: Union body finds workers describing themselves as ‘gambling’ because wages felt like the outcome of chance rather than workThe practice of using “dynamic pricing” to set pay on gig economy platforms including Uber...
Read MorePatrick Vallance says government working with Chinese officials to remove postings from Alibaba after Biobank data breach last weekThere have been further listings of confidential health records of UK volunteers on the Chinese...
Read MoreExperts say Nigel Farage’s party is not being transparent about how it will use data it collects on people’s voting habitsReform UK risks breaching data protection laws with its competition to win free energy bills for a year,...
Read MoreDeluge of ‘nudified’ images on social media platform X raises questions about regulation of use of AI technologiesThe deluge of images of partly clothed women – stripped by the Grok AI tool – on Elon Musk’s X has raised further...
Read MoreGen z are the first generation to have grown up with social media, they were the earliest adopters, and therefore the first to suffer its harms. Now they are fighting backLate one night in April 2020, towards the start of the...
Read MoreWatchdog contacts tax authority after families’ payments stopped based on flawed travel dataMinisters may have breached privacy laws when they suspended the child benefit of thousands of families on the basis of flawed Home...
Read MoreNew access order by Home Office would seek access to the tech company’s encrypted cloud backupsThe UK government has renewed its confrontation with Apple over access to customer data by demanding a backdoor into the tech...
Read MoreWatchdog’s report says government is unable to calculate exact cost of response to data breach, raising doubt over £850m estimateMore than 7,300 Afghans are expected to be resettled in the UK as a result of a major government...
Read MoreExclusive: Workers say £500k contract with US tech firm which supplies Israeli forces raises ‘serious ethical questions’Public sector workers have voiced “deep concern” after Coventry city council signed a £500,000-a-year...
Read MoreTech firm’s chief Louis Mosley dismisses attacks that contract ‘threatens to undermine public trust in NHS data systems’Palantir, the US data company which works with Israel’s defence ministry, has accused British doctors of...
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