The Department for Education broke GDPR data protection laws
The Department for Education (DfE) broke GDPR data protection laws, an ICO audit has concluded. The DfE failed to meet standards on a number of dif…
Court ruling threatens EU’s mass surveillance regimes – and UK data adequacy
Today, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that the mass surveillance programmes conducted by British, French and Belgian secur…
Nvidia plans to build the UK’s fastest supercomputer
US chip company Nvidia has announced it will build the UK’s fastest supercomputer, for the use of healthcare researchers using AI to study Co…
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 keystroke, web camera or wearables t…
The ‘real’ oversight board: ‘It’s about increasing pressure on Facebook to act’
In November 2018, Facebook announced plans to launch an independent oversight board, billed as a ‘supreme court’ for content decisions.…
Five must-read stories from the intersection of tech, business and politics
From news details about the EU’s Digital Services Act to the biggest govtech deals of the last few days, here are the key development so far …
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 Digital Services Act seen by the Fi…
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. Governments have struggled to sca…
Reducing TCO: How a security team cut admin workload by 90% and saved money
Running a Sophos cyber security system is an effective way to lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). This case study explores how a customer in India…
Reducing TCO: How a small team halved its cyber security workload
For Gustavo Cornejo Lizama, Network Manager for a large public sector organization in Santiago, Chile, moving to a Sophos cyber security system has…
The biggest govtech deals of the week (28/9/20)
This is the latest instalment of an exclusive series analysing the UK’s biggest public sector tech deals. In partnership with GlobalData, we’ve dri…
Facebook oversight committee to launch before the US election
Facebook’s long-hyped oversight board, billed as a “supreme court” for content decisions, will finally launch in October ahead of the U…
‘Organisations are backing up their viruses and malware without realising,’ says Teknov8 CEO
Teknov8 was established three years ago and still considers itself a start-up. Initially, the company was a distributor for cloud security products…
Five must-read stories from the intersection of tech, business and politics
From the EU’s war on encryption to Facebook’s threat to pull out of Europe, here are the key developments from this week. The EU is set…
NHSX launches recruitment drive for senior policy officials
The tech unit tasked with overseeing the health service’s digital transformation has launched a recruitment drive for senior policy officials…
Privacy organisations raise concerns over new Test and Trace data collection programme
Two prominent privacy organisations have launched a challenge to the government over the new Test and Trace programme that has launched alongside t…
‘Taking funding from Big Tech is problematic,’ says first director of Oxford AI ethics institute
The inaugural director of Oxford University’s new AI ethics institute has signalled his opposition to Silicon Valley’s bankrolling of a…
ConnectWise signs up to HackerOne bug bounty platform
The MSP software specialist ConnectWise is rolling out a new bug bounty programme as part of a drive to bolster the security of its applications. C…
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 transferring data to the US. But …
Three UK appoints Centrica’s Belinda Finch as CIO
Three UK has appointed Centrica’s Belinda Finch as chief information officer as part of a shake-up of its tech division. Finch joins the Brit…
The EU is set to declare war on encryption
The EU is set to declare war on encryption with plans to allow law enforcement officials “targeted lawful access” to protected communic…
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