BT, owner of UK mobile operator EE, is in talks with the UK government about handing over its phone location and usag…
Will Covid-19 affect the future of data privacy?
The Covid-19 global health crisis may alter the future of data privacy in the name of public safety. According to pub…
Zoom urged to be transparent about government data requests
Digital rights advocacy group Access Now has called on video conferencing company Zoom to produce a transparency repo…
Cyber-attack on US health agency aimed to disrupt COVID-19 response
A cyber-attack on the US Health and Human Services Department’s (HHS) computer system has been framed as a camp…
Israel to use “anti-terrorist” surveillance tech to track coronavirus spread
Israel is kicking its coronavirus response up a gear with prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement that the g…
Is the UK’s cyber essentials scheme working?
Launched in 2014, the UK’s “cyber essentials” scheme is designed to equip organisations with a grou…
EARN IT: the US bill that could end all encryption
A bill currently wending its way through US Congress is ostensibly aimed at combating child sexual abuse material. Bu…
China’s Hanwang Technology claims it can ID mask-wearing faces
A Chinese company claims to have developed facial recognition that can successfully ID faces that are partially obscu…
Tory MPs propose amendment to ban Huawei’s 5G kit
A group of eight Tory MPs aim to pass a law next week that would remove all Huawei technology from the UK’s telecoms …
Virgin Media breach: unprotected database was stored in the cloud, telco confirms
Virgin Media revealed last night (5 March) that the misconfiguration of a marketing database had led to around 900,00…