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TikTok fined €345m under GDPR for failing to protect children’s privacy

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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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Law firm Fieldfisher launches data breach management tool

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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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Executive interview: ManageEngine president Rajesh Ganesan on the ‘three Ws’ of digital change

11 minutes of reading / AI, API, compliance, Computer, DevOps, digital transformation, e-commerce, firewalls, GDPR, hybrid cloud, Tech / By

To measure the maturity of digital transformation, companies need to review the status of the so-called “three Ws”: workforce, workplace and workloads. That is, having a workforce – which includes all of a company’s business partners and stakeholders – capable of working from anywhere securely and with a good experience, using any workload or tool…

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TUC launches AI taskforce for workers’ rights and societal benefit

3 minutes of reading / AI, Computer, GDPR, Tech, Technology / By

The Trades Union Congress has launched an AI “taskforce” and is calling for new laws to safeguard workers’ rights and ensure the technology has broad social benefits. The taskforce, which the TUC said will corral specialists in law, technology, politics, HR and the voluntary sector, will publish an AI and Employment Bill early in 2024.…

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MPs say UK at real risk of falling behind on AI regulation

6 minutes of reading / AI, GDPR, open source, Tech, Technology / By

The government should introduce artificial intelligence (AI)-specific legislation in the next session of Parliament or there is a danger the UK will be “left behind” by legislation being developed elsewhere, MPs have warned. In an interim report published 31 August 2023 by the House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee (SITC) as part of…

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Most Influential Women in UK Tech: Computer Weekly’s Hall of Fame

26 minutes of reading / AI, Alphabet, Apple, automation, Big Data, branding, Cloud, compliance, Computer, digital transformation, Facebook, fintech, GDPR, IBM, Intel, internet of things, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, robotics, Tech, Technology / By

Computer Weekly’s list of the Most Influential Women in UK Technology has been running since 2012 to make female role models in the UK’s technology sector more visible and accessible.In 2015, the Hall of Fame was introduced alongside the top 50 to recognise women who have made a lifetime contribution to the technology sector, as…

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UK voter data hacked in cyber attack on election watchdog

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The UK’s Electoral Commission has fallen victim to a major cyber incident that saw electoral registers containing the personal data of millions of voters accessed by an as-yet undisclosed threat actor. The election watchdog said the attacker first accessed its systems in August 2021 but was able to avoid detection for over 12 months, before…

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Biden’s SBOM mandate a ‘shot heard around the world’, report says

5 minutes of reading / Computer, GDPR, Microsoft, open source, Tech / By

Two and a quarter years after President Biden signed an Executive Order (EO) to harden the US’ cyber security defences in the wake of high-profile attacks on SolarWinds, Microsoft Exchange and Colonial Pipeline, research produced by Sonatype has revealed that the mandate to improve software supply chain security has spurred action on this side of…

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Scottish NHS trust ducks fine after staff shared patient data via WhatsApp

5 minutes of reading / GDPR, Meta, Tech / By

NHS Lanarkshire has been issued a reprimand by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after 26 staff at the trust used a WhatsApp group to share patient data, including names, phone numbers and addresses, on over 500 occasions between April 2020 and April 2022. Staff at the trust, which oversees three hospitals near Glasgow in the…

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Gartner: Steps to improving test data management

5 minutes of reading / automation, compliance, DevOps, GDPR, software engineering, Tech / By

Test data management (TDM) is a crucial practice for ensuring compliant data and providing uniformity to test data. In the same way testing environments and data models are continuously evolving, test data management practices require ongoing revision. The use of personal data in development and testing environments is a persistent concern for software engineering leaders…

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