central government
Home Office may put child abuse database on the cloud
"... it is now considered that removing these restrictions can be compliant with data protection requirements."
Sponsored
From the Marines to the “4 Cs”: BigID’s Brenton Gumucio on code camps, preventing data exposure and working with MongoDB
“We are pretty tightly aligned with the MongoDB product team. That allowed us to scale up and attack use cases where we're scanning petabytes of data, and solving really hard problems for customers.”
Policy
Spying on MPs and breaking encryption: New UK legislation damned as “unprecedented” – and “deeply troubling”
Apple says new rules “significantly widen the powers and exacerbate the flaws inherent in the Investigatory Powers Act”
AI
ICO slaps Snap over AI chat
ICO suggests a "worrying failure" to assess privacy risks but says "no conclusion should be drawn" it issues a preliminary enforcement notice over ChatGPT-based chatbot...
News
New transatlantic data transfer agreement comes after "unprecedented" US spying commitment
US companies will be able to join the new EU-US Data Privacy Framework “by committing to comply with a detailed set of privacy obligations" -- but will it be back in court soon?
ICO
UK data watchdog wants DPOs to adopt PETS (without fur)
Homomorphic encryption, synthetic data, and other privacy enhancing technologies could help data leaders ensure “data protection by design and by default” says ICO
Zoom
Zoom's new privacy tools offer European data sovereignty-lite
Careful now, read the small print: Account, diagnostic data will stay in the US and Zoom can't promise calls and recordings won't pass through data centres you opted out of...
data protection
Meta hit by record €1.2 billion GDPR fine: SaaS providers need to wake up to EU-US data transfer risk
It’s a bombshell fine and a boat-rocking one, born of a complex dispute but also one with simple roots...
Enterprise IT
UK’s GDPR lite “replacement” kills off DPOs (in name)
UK plans to relax some protections under Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in its revised Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, after a round of external consultations. The proposed changes reduce requirements around the processing of personal data where it is used for “legitimate interests”, aim to clarify
Featured
Home Office eying privatisation of bulk surveillance apparatus
"One or more providers" to handle data harvesting units' needs...
Featured
Clearview AI fined £7.5m for scraping UK faces -- ordered to delete data
Facial recognition firm's behaviour "unacceptable" says ICO
Featured
UK Data Reform Bill risks EU 'adequacy' agreement
Plans may see gov't take direct control of ICO guidance and appointments.