The competition watchdog has published the provisioning findings from its long-running investigation into the inner workings of the UK cloud infrastructure services market, which shows that competition in the sector is not working as well as it could be. For this reason, Kip Meek, chair of the CMA’s independent inquiry group, said it is advising…
More than 40 journalists and lawyers have submitted evidence to an independent review into allegations that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) unlawfully spied on journalists and members of the legal profession. The review, commissioned by the chief constable of Northern Ireland, Jon Boutcher, is looking into allegations that the PSNI collected the phone…
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AutoTrader’s team of tech staff is driving the company forward amid the lightning pace of digital transformation, with a technology enthusiast in the business’s driving seat. The company, which is today a digital marketplace for buying and selling cars, published its last magazine in 2013. It is now drilling into the latest technologies to make…
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A second attempt in as many months to reform the outdated Computer Misuse Act (CMA) of 1990 to provide legal protections for cyber security professionals and ethical hackers who fear prosecution under the vague offence of “unauthorised access to a computer” has been knocked back in the House of Lords by former government chief scientific…
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The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) came into force on 16 January 2023. Following a two-year implementation period, from 17 January 2025, financial organisations must fully comply with the new regulation, which aims to ensure they remain resilient to severe operational digital disruption. The act covers a number of aspects of cyber resiliency, auditability, and…
Those Beyond started life as the tech lab of fintech unicorn Thought Machine, supplying cloud-based core banking systems to the world’s biggest banks. Now, after setting off in a different direction to its former parent, it is on an innovation journey that started with a product not aimed at the JP Morgans or the Lloyds…
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The Department of Justice has issued a call for evidence as it examines the role of computer evidence in the criminal justice system to prevent another Post Office scandal. Computer evidence was used to wrongly convict hundreds of former subpostmasters and their staff, based on evidence from the error-prone Horizon computer system from Fujitsu used…
Asylum seekers residing in a Greek refugee camp funded by the European Union (EU) are subjected to invasive phone confiscations and legally dubious monitoring by artificial intelligence (AI)-driven surveillance systems, a report has revealed. Published by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) I Have Rights (IHR) and the Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN), the findings detail privacy violations…
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