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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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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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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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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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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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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Privacy campaigners have submitted formal complaints to UK and French data regulators against online advertising and data brokerage company LiveRamp, claiming it’s “privacy-invasive profiling” breaks European data protection laws. Open Rights Group (ORG) – which submitted two separate complaints to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the French Commission Nationale de l’informatique et des…
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After much deliberation, the UK-US data bridge finally took effect on 12 October. This new framework is expected to speed up processes and increase opportunities for companies that are exporting data-enabled services. Previously, organisations that wanted to do this had to have contract clauses in place to guarantee UK data protection and privacy standards are…
The new data landscape: how will the new UK-US data bridge affect businesses? Read More »
TikTok, the video-sharing social medial platform, is to be fined €345m for failing to protect children’s privacy. Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) announced the fine against the video-sharing app for breaches of the GDPR data protection law. TikTok exposed children aged 13 to 17 to risks by making their accounts publicly available by default and…
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Fieldfisher, a London-headquartered law firm specialising in data protection and privacy issues across Europe, has launched a data breach assessment and management tool developed in collaboration with Lawcadia, a Brisbane-based supplier of technology platform services for the legal sector. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) expert Fieldfisher, which advises clients in 12 countries, wanted to give…
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