Proton boss: UK banks won’t function if encryption disappears September 17, 2023 The issue of encryption has become a pressing conundrum for both tech companies and lawmakers involved in the UK’s Online Safety Bill in recent months. Now at least they agree that there is currently no viable technology to access messages without compromising user privacy. Encryption is a crucial way of turning messages into an unreadable [...]
TikTok fined £296m by watchdog over how it processed children’s data September 15, 2023 TikTok has been fined 345 million euro (£296 million) by Ireland’s data watchdog following an investigation into how the social media platform processed children’s data. The fine was imposed on TikTok Technology Limited (TTL) by the Data Protection Commission (DPC) after the probe into how certain privacy settings and features complied with obligations under the EU’s General Data [...]
TikTok: Lawyers hope new data centre can ease privacy fears September 8, 2023 Tiktok has opened a European data centre which lawyers say could quell international privacy fears currently plaguing the app. This week the Chinese video app opened a new data centre based in Dublin as part of an effort to calm European data privacy concerns around the app’s links to China. ‘Project Clover’, as it has [...]
Data attacks set to enter new era under ‘FraudGPT’, warn cybersecurity execs August 8, 2023 A new breed of malicious AI models are “heralding an era of AI-enabled data attacks” on businesses, Darktrace VP of strategic cyber AI Nicole Carignan has warned. Speaking to City A.M., Carnigan said data attacks will become “faster and harder to defend against in the next few years” as new AI systems make attacks more [...]
IBM Security Report: UK businesses face £3.4m data breach costs but AI could help July 24, 2023 UK organisations face an average cost of £3.4m for data breach incidents but AI could reduce these costs by £1.6m on average, a report by IBM Security has revealed. Their annual Cost of a Data Breach Report showed a decrease in the total average cost of a data breach in the UK from £3.8m in [...]
Football’s data wars takes another turn, but can players really protect their information? July 11, 2023 A former Leyton Orient, Scarborough and Yeovil Town manager may seem an unlikely figure to be at the forefront of football’s data wars, but a landmark announcement in the Netherlands this week can be traced back to Russell Slade. Fifpro, the international union for professional footballers, on Tuesday announced the creation of a new database [...]
Clock ticks down for Tiktok as UK reportedly prepares to ban app on government devices March 13, 2023 Amid reports the UK is set to recommend a ban on Tiktok from government devices, City A.M. looks at how the app went from viral dance videos to data security threat.Every Sunday, whatever the weather, groups of teenagers gather on a raised platform outside City A.M. HQ to film themselves dancing against the glittering backdrop [...]
UK’s data watchdog to shift away from big fines to focus on prevention January 18, 2023 The UK’s data watchdog has vowed to shift away from simply hitting companies with big fines for breaching data privacy rules and instead will look to adopt a more preventative approach. John Edwards, head of the Information Commissioner’s Office, said today that he will focus on preventing data breaches from happening in the first place [...]
UK and US make ‘significant progress’ on data partnership as Biden pens EU wide deal October 7, 2022 The government said it has made “significant progress” in securing a new tech and data partnership with the US. It comes as Digital Secretary Michelle Donelan met with US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo earlier today to work on a new data adequacy agreement in the coming weeks. Data adequacy agreements allow personal data to [...]
TikTok could face £27m fine over children’s privacy allegations September 26, 2022 TikTok is facing a possible £27m fine over claims it may have broken UK data protection law and failed to protect children’s privacy. The Information Commissioner (ICO) handed the social media platform a ‘notice of intent’ over alleged breaches between May 2018 and 2020. The investigation discovered TikTok may have processed children’s data without the [...]