Category: Privacy

Monitoring UK bank accounts for benefits fraud would be ‘huge blow to privacy’

Exclusive: groups fear government may resurrect Tory plan for mass algorithmic surveillance of bank accountsUK politics live – latest updatesMinisters have been warned not to resurrect Conservative plans to tackle welfare...

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Reform UK tracked private user information without consent

Observer reveals potentially millions of people had data shared with Facebook for use in targeted advertisingA hidden tracking tool in the website for Reform UK collected private browsing data about potentially millions of...

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Starmer live facial recognition plan would usher in national ID, campaigners warn

PM accused of ignoring civil rights and aping autocracies as he proposes new powers after far-right unrestCivil liberties campaigners warned that a proposal made by Keir Starmer on Thursday to expand the use of live facial...

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Leisure centres scrap biometric systems to keep tabs on staff amid UK data watchdog clampdown

Firms such as Serco and Virgin Active pull facial recognition and fingerprint scan systems used to monitor staff attendanceDozens of companies including national leisure centre chains are reviewing or pulling facial recognition...

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Ulez fines scandal: Italian police ‘illegally accessed’ thousands of EU drivers’ data

Italy’s data protection body investigates claims police shared names and addresses with firm collecting penalties for TfLThe names and addresses of thousands of EU drivers were unlawfully accessed by Italian police and...

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Prince Harry hails phone-hacking case win as ‘great day for truth’

Duke awarded £140,600 in damages after judge rules articles were product of hacking or unlawful information gathering‘A warning to all media organisations’: Prince Harry’s statementPrince Harry has hailed...

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Prince Harry wins partial victory in phone-hacking case against Daily Mirror

Royal had accused publisher of hacking phones and other illegal behaviour to obtain scoops about his private lifePrince Harry has partially won his phone-hacking case against the Daily Mirror, after a judgment that has major...

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