Privacy - Security - computing

The Security Excellence Awards 2024, held last night in London, celebrated innovation and some outstanding personal achievements in cybersecurity.

https://www.computing.co.uk/event/4204292/security-excellence-awards-winners-revealed

The Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill 2024 is set to become law after receiving Royal Assent. It will expand the extensive surveillance powers already granted to police, government and intel...

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4202321/investigatory-powers-amendment-set-law-following-royal-assent

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), has raised concerns regarding Google's proposed alternative to third-party cookies: the Privacy Sandbox.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4199613/uk-regulator-gaps-googles-privacy-sandbox-proposals

Google agrees to delete 'billions of data points' collected from Incognito

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4192048/google-erase-private-browsing

The question of whether we have really seen and understood the full extent of Chinese attempts to disrupt elections in the UK and the US remains open to debate.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news-analysis/4189805/china-crisis-government-blames-china-electoral-commission-cyberattack

LiveRamp is a cloud data platform company based in San Francisco. Previously known as Acxiom Corporation, it is "the industry's only interoperable platform for data collaboration across all clou...

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4180665/stalker-broker-liveramp-reported-uk-french-regulators

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has levelled a a $16.5 million fine against cybersecurity vendor Avast for unlawfully harvesting and selling customer data without their consent.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4178359/avast-fine-tracking-selling-user

UK data protection regulator the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has ordered Serco Leisure to stop using facial recognition and fingerprint scanning to monitor employee attendance.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4178174/ico-serco-leisure-stop-biometric-monitoring-staff

The Good Law Project (GLP) has launched legal action against NHS England, to uncover redactions in its contract with US tech firm Palantir.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4175977/nhs-england-challenged-redacted-palantir-contract

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has declared that giving law enforcement access to encrypted messages through backdoors violates fundamental rights outlined in the European Convention ...

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4175028/encryption-backdoors-violate-human-rights-eu-court

Founding NCSC chief executive Ciaran Martin to join as technical committee chair

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4165192/cyber-monitoring-centre-launched-former-ncsc-head-helm

In a move to align with the EU's GDPR, Microsoft has unveiled plans to exclusively store and process all personal data from its European users within the EU.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4163582/microsoft-google-uk-moves-sovereign-storage

There's still time to enter a product, service, project or person into the awards

https://www.computing.co.uk/event/4161755/security-excellence-awards-2024-winner

In a move to boost user privacy, Google has started testing changes to the Chrome browser that disable third-party cookies: the primary tool websites and advertisers use to track online behaviou...

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4160787/googles-chrome-feature-disables-cookies-million-users

Data protection watchdog the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has ordered organisations failing to comply with cookie rules to clean up their act or face enforcement action.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4160205/uk-regulator-fires-warning-shot-cookie-compliance

Cloud storage giant Dropbox is under scrutiny after revelations that a new setting, enabled by default, shares users' data with OpenAI when using an AI-powered search feature.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4157118/dropbox-backlash-openai-sharing

The UK media regulator, Ofcom, has launched an investigation into social video platform TikTok over concerns that the app provided "inaccurate" information about its parental controls.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4157087/ofcom-investigating-tiktoks-parental-controls

The Joint Committee on National Security Strategy (JCNSS) publishes report on the UKs readiness for a cyber-attack on critical national infrastructure. Spoiler alert - it's not great.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4156282/uk-risk-catastrophic-ransomware-attack

Governments around the world have been using smartphone push notifications to spy on users, according to a letter US Senator Ron Wyden sent to the Department of Justice.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4154243/governments-forcing-apple-google-share-notification

Campaigners have launched legal action in a bid to halt a contentious data sharing deal between the NHS and US tech company Palantir citing concerns over patient privacy.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4152103/legal-challenge-launched-nhs-palantir-deal

Agreement represents a 'truly global effort' to ensure security by design

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4150995/uk-cyber-intelligence-leads-international-standard-safe-ai-software-development

'Furry Hacktivists' target Idaho National Laboratory for cat-human experiments

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4150289/nuclear-lab-niche-cyber-threat

Advisory emphasises ‘critical concern’

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4150142/uk-south-korea-unite-surging-north-korean-linked-threats

LittleDrifter has infected organisations worldwide

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4149857/russian-hackers-unleash-usb-worm-global-reach

Concerns expressed that some websites are not providing users with a clear choice regarding personalised ads

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4149756/ico-issues-warning-websites-cookie-consent-policies

The news comes despite a security breach in March which exposed pension data

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4149120/capita-clinches-gbp239m-civil-service-pensions

Conservative MP David Davis has raised concerns in Parliament about the possibility that a multimillion pound contract for the NHS Federated Data Platform England could be awarded to US data min...

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4144595/palantir-david-davis-mp-raises-privacy-concerns-potential-nhs-contract

Arturo Béjar, a former engineering director at Meta, testified before the US Congress on Tuesday, sharing his personal experience of witnessing his own daughter suffer harassment on Instagram.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4143659/meta-whistleblower-testifies-about-failure-protect-teens-safety

The recent surge of data-driven, insight-producing innovations such as generative AI, computer vision, and large-scale natural language processing, have brought the value of data to the forefron...

https://www.computing.co.uk/opinion/4140023/driven-centric-protection

Apple has warned prominent Indian opposition politicians, journalists and activists that their iPhones may have been targeted by "state-sponsored" hackers.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4141019/apple-warns-indian-opposition-mps-about-sponsored-iphone-hackers

The Online Safety Bill is now the Online Safety Act (OSA) having officially received royal assent on Thursday.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4139427/online-safety-act-receives-royal-assent

The British Medical Association (BMA), charity group Refuge, and 20 other organisations have issued a strong warning regarding the potential risks that remote access to medical records may pose ...

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4139268/nhs-concerns-mount-prospective-medical-records-access-31st-october

Google is gearing up to roll out a new ‘IP Protection’ feature for its Chrome browser, aiming to heighten user privacy by concealing their IP addresses through proxy servers.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4137646/google-set-introduce-ip-protection-feature-chrome-browser

In a significant legal victory for controversial US-based facial recognition technology firm Clearview AI, a UK tribunal has ruled in favour of the company, overturning a £7.5 million fine impo...

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4136182/facial-recognition-firm-clearview-ai-overturns-gbp-uk-fine-appeal

UK data protection watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has sent a preliminary enforcement notice to Snap, over a "potential failure to properly assess the privacy risks" posed b...

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4132364/ico-raps-snap-ai-chatbot-privacy

The UK's surveillance camera commissioner, Professor Fraser Sampson, has warned that allowing police to access the passport image database for facial recognition could harm public trust.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4132125/camera-commissioner-police-access-passport-photos-risks-public-trust

Poor procedures and training have been blamed for human errors in matters of life and death.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4129923/public-bodies-expose-victims-details-domestic-abusers

The UK Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) Michelle Donelan on Thursday introduced regulations in Parliament to implement the new transatlantic data transfer mechani...

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4127791/uk-us-bridge-operational-12th-october

European regulators have imposed a hefty €345 million fine on popular short video-sharing platform TikTok, citing its inadequate protection of children's personal data.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4126017/tiktok-fined-eur345m-europe-childrens-privacy