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    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      Web browsing data collected in more detail than previously known, report finds

      Campaigners warn proliferation of categories describing sensitive professions could leave users open to blackmail

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    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      Cyber Security
      Tech groups fear new powers will allow UK to block encryption

      Signal president urges ministers to clarify provisions in proposed legislation

    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      Equifax Inc
      UK regulator hits Equifax with £11mn fine over cyber breach

      Credit reporting agency failed to protect data of almost 14mn customers during 2017 breach

      A monitor displays Equifax signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
    • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
      Meta Platforms
      Meta to charge users in EU for ad-free Instagram and Facebook

      Tech group plans a $14 monthly subscription fee for access via mobile

      Social media apps on a phone, including Instagram
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      Special Report
      Navigating Cyber Risk

      There is growing concern that AI may be weaponised by hackers to enable cyber attacks. Plus: why airlines care about connections; how to spot a deepfake; global shortage of cyber security staff; and five easy security wins

      What appears to be a cyber hacker is utilizing A and I to destroy a desktop computer that is being used by a person
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      Special ReportNavigating Cyber Risk
      Consumer groups put more value on security

      Businesses are being advised to disclose, but not trade on, their data protection credentials

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    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      TikTok Inc
      EU fines TikTok €345mn for breaching children’s data rules

      Probe finds Chinese social media app infringed regulations for users aged under 17

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    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      John Thornhill
      Clean data must be as much of a right as clean water

      Buried deep in the privacy policies of car companies is their practice of collection, using and selling your very personal information

      A Nissan Leaf recharges in Denver, Colorado
    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      Internet privacy
      UK pulls back from clash with Big Tech over private messaging

      Ministers will not immediately enforce online safety bill powers to scan apps after WhatsApp threatened shutdown

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    • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
      News in-depthIndian politics & policy
      India’s communications ‘backdoor’ attracts surveillance companies

      Little-known Israeli groups emerge as key providers of tracking equipment installed at subsea cable stations

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    • Monday, 14 August, 2023
      Northern Ireland
      N Ireland police confirm leaked data in hands of dissidents

      PSNI officers fear they have a target on their backs after data blunder

    • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
      Northern Ireland
      N Ireland police faces fines and compensation claims after data blunder

      Force admits sensitive information could have fallen into the hands of paramilitary groups

    • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
      Airlines
      Online booking agents turn up heat in long-running Ryanair battle

      UK regulators urged to probe low-cost carrier’s ‘invasive, unnecessary and unfair’ treatment of customers

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    • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
      Indian politics & policy
      India passes landmark data protection bill

      Country with almost 1bn people connected to the internet has lacked a law regulating sharing of personal information

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    • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
      Northern Ireland
      N Ireland police try to calm officers after huge data leak

      Staff fear they could be targeted by paramilitaries after personal details were published accidentally online

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    • Thursday, 3 August, 2023
      LexCryptocurrencies
      Worldcoin/Altman: lowballing for eyeballs will not brake AI juggernaut Premium content

      Start-up has raised far less in funding than OpenAI, and is yet to present a convincing business model

      Worldcoin’s orb which scans eyeballs to verify identities
    • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
      Special ReportBusiness Legal Leaders
      Lawyers take frontline role in business response to cyber attacks

      Chief legal officers have crucial responsibility in dealing with security breaches

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    • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
      Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
      The global order of digital empires is only just holding together

      Democratic market economies need to work together to keep the free exchange of data alive

      View through a window of Max Schrems sitting in front of his computer at his desk
    • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
      EU tech regulation
      Google releases chatbot in Europe after addressing privacy concerns

      US tech giant delayed its initial Bard launch to improve transparency to comply with regulators

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    • Monday, 10 July, 2023
      Technology regulation
      EU-US data-sharing deal comes into force amid threats of legal challenge

      New privacy guarantees designed to reassure companies over transfer of personal information between regions

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    • Friday, 7 July, 2023
      UK banks
      UK banks say data rules stop them telling savers about better deals

      Lenders under pressure over high mortgage costs and low saving rates low point to GDPR regime

    • Tuesday, 4 July, 2023
      Meta Platforms
      Facebook suffers fresh setback after EU ruling on use of personal data

      Move marks big step for competition authorities to scrutinise the way tech companies handle information

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    • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
      India
      India’s government denies reports of mass leak of citizens’ data

      Alleged breach raises concerns about security of country’s vaunted digital public infrastructure

      A health official points to the Co-Win app on a computer screen in Hyderabad, India
    • Tuesday, 13 June, 2023
      Visual story
      Subsea cables: how the US is pushing China out of the internet’s plumbing

      Driven by fears of espionage and geopolitical tensions, experts say the infrastructure underpinning the internet is in danger of dividing into eastern and western blocks

    • Monday, 5 June, 2023
      Cyber Security
      British Airways, Boots and BBC among companies hit by cyber security attack

      Tens of thousands of workers affected by breach of sensitive data in hack expected to spread to the US

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