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AI facial recognition oversight lagging far behind technology, watchdogs warn

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Exclusive: Biometrics commissioners say face-scanning not as effective as claimed and new laws needed to regulate useHow does live facial recognition work and how many police forces use it? Guilty until proven innocent: shoppers falsely identified by facial recognitionBritain’s biometrics watchdogs have warned that national oversight of AI-powered face scanning to catch criminals is lagging […]

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How does live facial recognition work and how many UK police forces use it?

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Technology has been deployed since 2020 in London, leading to concerns over data privacy and racial biasAI facial recognition oversight lagging far behind technology, watchdogs warnGuilty until proven innocent: shoppers falsely identified by facial recognitionThe Labour government thinks facial recognition technology is “the biggest breakthrough for catching criminals since DNA matching”. It wants all police

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IDC: How EMEA CIOs can jumpstart AI rollouts

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Getting stalled enterprise AI rollouts in the EMEA region moving again will require CIOs to aggressively audit their systems. Over the past 18 months, AI deployments across Europe advanced far beyond initial testing. Companies poured capital into large language models and machine learning, expecting heavy operational upgrades. IDC research reveals that boards are slowing down,

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Some Interrail travellers told to cancel passports as hacked data posted online

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Eurail, which sells passes, says data being ‘offered for sale on dark web’ after December breach affecting 300,000 peopleHolidaymakers across Europe are facing the stress and expense of getting new passports after their personal data was posted on the dark web after a hack of the Interrail company Eurail.Personal data, including passport numbers, names, phone

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Met police in talks to buy Palantir AI tech for use in criminal investigations

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Exclusive: Internal concerns over allowing US firm linked to ICE and Israeli military to process highly sensitive data The Metropolitan police has held talks with Palantir that could lead to the London force buying the US spy-tech company’s AI technology to automate intelligence analysis for criminal investigations, the Guardian has learned.Palantir, whose software is used

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Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears

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Alarm caused by posts of Alex Carp, tech firm’s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weaponsThe US spy tech company Palantir published a manifesto extolling the benefits of American power and implying some cultures are inferior to others – in what MPs have called “a parody of a RoboCop film” and “the ramblings

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Google Broke Its Privacy Promise — Now ICE Has Your Data

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Google handed ICE a student journalist’s data without warning, breaking a decade-long promise. Here’s what happened and what it means for your privacy. The post Google Broke Its Privacy Promise — Now ICE Has Your Data appeared first on 1redDrop.

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Commvault launches a ‘Ctrl-Z’ for cloud AI workloads

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Enterprise cloud environments now have access to an undo feature for AI agents following the deployment of Commvault AI Protect. Autonomous software now roams across infrastructure, potentially deleting files, reading databases, spinning up server clusters, and even rewriting access policies. Commvault identified this governance issue and the data protection vendor has launched AI Protect, a

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MP rejects Palantir’s claims that criticism of NHS England deal is ‘ideologically motivated’

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Head of committee says it was appropriate for government to seek guidance on way out of £330m deal with US data companyClaims by Palantir that concerns over the US data analytics company’s multimillion-pound NHS contract are “ideologically motivated” have been rejected by the chair of a parliamentary committee.It was also appropriate for the government to

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Google warns quantum computers could hack encrypted systems by 2029

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Banks, governments and tech providers urged to upgrade security because current systems will soon be obsolete Banks, governments and technology providers need to be prepared for quantum computer hackers capable of breaking most existing encryption systems by 2029, Google has warned.The tech company said in a blogpost that quantum computers would pose a “significant threat

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