The Red Cross has published a letter calling on the world’s governments to take more decisive action against cy…
Government says no to new privacy legislation for NHSX contact tracing app
Health secretary Matt Hancock has responded to demands for new legislation for the NHSX tracing app with “a big…
Employers face legal minefield over Covid-19 workplace surveillance tech
The coronavirus pandemic has been a boon to the surveillance tech industry. Governments across the world have scrambl…
Facial verification tech in NHS app could pave way for immunity passports
The NHS app now incorporates facial verification technology from the biometrics company iProov to verify the identity…
“Highly sophisticated” EasyJet hack compromises personal data of 9 million people
Today EasyJet admitted that the personal data of nine million people had been exposed in a hack it called “high…
Verizon’s DBIR: most cyber attacks launched by organised crime groups for financial gain
The vast majority of cyber attacks are perpetrated by organised crime actors for financial gain, rather than nation s…
NHS collecting third party app data to map Covid-19 threat
A new government project called OASIS – established by a partnership between NHSX, the health service’s digital…
Cyber attack knocks UK research supercomputer ARCHER out of action indefinitely
ARCHER, one of the UK’s most powerful research supercomputers, has been knocked offline indefinitely due to a “securi…
The privacy risks of the NHSX tracing app are both less and more serious than you think
The concerns surrounding the UK’s “wobbly”, technologically quirky and legally dubious coronavirus contact-tracing ap…
NHSX tracing app: Data privacy risks are low, according to the people who made it
The NHS has updated the data protection impact assessment (DPIA) for its coronavirus contact-tracing app to include a…