UK MPs have joined the call for President Trump to be censored from social media platforms due to his incendiary twee…
UK will probably get an EU data adequacy agreement – but struggle to keep it
The UK is likely to be offered an adequacy agreement by the EU post-Brexit that will ensure continued international d…
Caroline Dinenage: The UK’s safety tech scene is thriving
With more people than ever before spending time online during the pandemic, a new report published today shows Britis…
Ofcom director shouldn’t have been allowed to join Facebook yet, says MP
Tony Close, Ofcom’s director of content standards, is set to join Facebook as it prepares to meet the terms of …
Antitrust regulators ease off as pandemic threatens to bankrupt businesses
The antitrust Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)’s provisional clearance of Amazon’s investment in Deliveroo sho…
WhatsApp’s spyware lawsuit against NSO Group could change cyber espionage laws forever
Almost six months after it was served with a lawsuit by WhatsApp, the controversial Israeli spyware company NSO Group…
How did 5G conspiracy theorists become arsonists?
Like mobile phones, 3G and 4G before it, 5G has become a nexus of paranoid, brain-frying health scare delusions. Sinc…
Michael Gove brands 5G coronavirus theories “dangerous nonsense”
Cabinet secretary Michael Gove dismissed conspiracy theories linking 5G to Covid-19 as “dangerous nonsense̶…
UK publishes framework for post-Brexit EU data adequacy agreement
The UK government has published a number of documents championing the country’s scrupulous data protection stan…
EU tells members: Want to trace Covid-19 using smartphone data? You’ll need to legislate
The European Union’s committee of data protection regulators has clarified that national governments will need …