Today, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that the mass surveillance programmes conducted by Bri…
Union urges government to reign in employee surveillance tech
Prospect Union is calling for the government to reign in employers using invasive surveillance tools – such as keystr…
EU draft rules strike at the heart of Big Tech’s business model
The EU is planning to force Big Tech to share its data with smaller rivals, according to a draft version of the Digit…
Why we must break the constraints of the industrial model of government
Covid-19 has shown the importance of a strong state, but also revealed a chasm between expectations and capacity. Gov…
NHSX launches recruitment drive for senior policy officials
NHSX, the tech unit tasked with overseeing the health service’s digital transformation, has launched a recruitm…
‘Taking funding from Big Tech is problematic,’ says inaugural director of Oxford AI ethics institute
The inaugural director of Oxford University’s Institute for Ethics in AI has signalled his opposition to the pr…
Will Facebook really pull out of Europe?
Facebook is threatening to pull the plug on its operations in Europe following a court order demanding it to stop tra…
European Commission pushes back plans for AI legislation to 2021
The European Commission president, Urusula von der Leyen, has revealed that new legislation governing the use of AI w…
‘Europe’s Digital Decade’: how the EU is pitching tech as the driving force behind its recovery
In a state of the union address on Wednesday (16 September), the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der…
New national data strategy ‘threatens’ UK data adequacy resolution
The government’s new national data strategy could jeopardise Britain’s chances of securing an adequacy de…