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Police cloud project raises data protection concerns despite legal reforms

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Nine police forces are seeking to replace their common records managements system (RMS) with a cloud-based alternative – but despite upcoming changes to the UK’s data laws, experts say the strong likelihood of a US-based hyperscaler winning the contract presents continued risks. Under the UK’s current data regime, moving sensitive police records to one of…

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Interview: Rahul Todkar, head of data and AI, Tripadvisor

8 minutes of reading / AI, ChatGPT, Cloud, compliance, digital transformation, GDPR, Google, machine learning, Tech / By / Leave a Comment

Rahul Todkar, head of data and AI at Tripadvisor, has a broad remit. As well as leading a spectrum of data functions, from artificial intelligence (AI) to engineering and platforms, he’s also responsible for ensuring the business monetises the information it collects. Todkar found the scale of this opportunity hugely tempting when he joined the…

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Interview: Bruno Marie-Rose, CIO, Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games

9 minutes of reading / 5G, Alibaba, compliance, Computer, e-commerce, GDPR, IT strategy, Tech / By

You know the technology behind the Olympic and Paralympic Games is in good hands when it’s run by a former athletics world record holder and three-time Olympian. Bruno Marie-Rose, chief information and technology officer of the Paris 2024 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, is not your average digital leader. He speaks to…

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Meta fined $101.8M for storing 600M Facebook passwords in plain text

4 minutes of reading / Facebook, GDPR, Meta, social media, Tech / By

Remember when Facebook stored some 600 million Facebook account passwords in plaintext and then pretended like it was no big deal? It all went down at some point in 2019. Of note, the passwords were not hacked, though Facebook employees might have had access to them. Still, the EU investigated the security issues, going after…

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Opera wants its new AI to change how people use web browsers

4 minutes of reading / AI, Apple, ChatGPT, GDPR, iPad, Tech, VPN / By

During its Opera Browser Days event in Bristol, England, browser company Opera revealed some of its latest AI developments.According to Joanna Czajka, product director for the Opera Browser, the browser experience users have today will be vastly different in two years. So far, the Opera browser has led this change by being the first browser…

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Enhancing mobile app security with behaviour-based biometrics

7 minutes of reading / API, GDPR, machine learning, Tech / By

It’s estimated that 75% of security vulnerabilities go undiscovered. Much of this has to do simply with ease of access – for a long time, mobile security has relied on biometric authentication, such as fingerprint scans and facial recognition.  However, as cyber threats evolve, these methods are no longer sufficient to counter the sophisticated tactics…

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UK data regulator should investigate police cloud deployments

6 minutes of reading / Azure, Cloud, compliance, Computer, GDPR, Microsoft, Tech / By

Scottish biometrics commissioner Brian Plastow is calling for the UK data regulator to formally investigate whether Police Scotland’s cloud-based Digital Evidence Sharing Capability (DESC) is compliant with data protection laws, after Microsoft disclosed it cannot guarantee the sovereignty of UK policing data hosted in the Azure public cloud. Plastow told Computer Weekly the Microsoft disclosure,…

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AI and outsourcing: What’s the future for relationships and contracts? (Part two)

7 minutes of reading / AI, cloud computing, compliance, digital transformation, GDPR, Intel, machine learning, Tech / By

What follows is based on our combined experience of around 52 years of legal advice to the IT and outsourcing industries, and how we’ve seen outsourcing relationships and agreements develop to accommodate waves of new IT infrastructure, technologies, systems, applications and business processes. We look broadly at the key areas of focus for customers within…

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Law student ‘unfairly disciplined’ after reporting data breach blunder

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A former student at the Inns of Court College of Advocacy (ICCA) says he was hauled over the coals by the college for having acted responsibly and “with integrity” in reporting a security blunder that left sensitive information about students exposed. Bartek Wytrzyszczewski faced misconduct proceedings after alerting the college to a data breach exposing…

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Australia’s Qantas apologises for mobile app data breach

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Australian flag carrier Qantas has apologised to fliers after a glitch in its mobile application temporarily enabled some customers to view the flights and booking details of other frequent fliers on two separate occasions. The airline said that no financial information was exposed, and nor were any users able to transfer or use frequent flier…

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