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Apple launches legal challenge against UK government demand to access data

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The Home Office has made a fresh request for ‘back door’ access to encrypted iCloud data belonging to British usersApple has launched a new legal challenge against a UK government demand to access its customers’ highly encrypted data, a year after the Home Office agreed to abandon its previous request.The US tech company launched the […]

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Spies in the sky: how worried should we be about the arrival of AI-enabled smart lamp-posts?

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The new breed of camera-equipped streetlights has the potential to fight crime and track down missing persons. Or will it just take Britain one step closer to a surveillance state?How would you feel if your neighbourhood lamp-posts could recognise your number plate, and also your face? Maybe you wouldn’t mind, given how long we’ve had

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Met to expand use of live facial recognition into central London by Christmas

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Technology to be used in six more areas next year as critics say tens of thousands of people will be forced into ‘digital police lineup’The Metropolitan police is to expand its use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology, first into London’s West End by Christmas and then into a further six areas next year.The new

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Tuesday briefing: Palantir’s rise – and why so many oppose its role in the British state

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In today’s newsletter: Its software is used from health services to militaries. But controversies and criticism of the $375bn company are leading some to ask if Palantir is too powerfulGood morning. The Peter Mandelson story keeps unfolding. Peter Walker explains here what is in the latest release of documents, and Henry Dyer takes a look

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Palantir’s access to identifiable NHS England patient data is ‘dangerous’, MPs say

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Decision made to grant US tech firm ‘unlimited access’ to data in project to build integrated platform, according to reportsUK politics live – latest updatesMPs have warned that an NHS decision to grant Palantir access to identifiable patient information in its plan to use AI to improve the health service is “dangerous” and will fuel

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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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