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  • Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
    Social Media
    Ofcom to get more powers over tech groups in online safety drive

    Home Office strengthens UK regulator with plans to amend child protection legislation

  • Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
    Cyber Security
    China censors news of alleged hacking of Shanghai police database

    Purported leak of personal information of more than 1bn people offered for sale for $200,000

  • Friday, 1 July, 2022
    TikTok Inc
    TikTok says it is working to ‘safeguard’ US data and national security

    Popular ByteDance-owned app seeks to allay lawmakers’ concerns about China’s access to sensitive information

  • Friday, 1 July, 2022
    Undercover EconomistTim Harford
    How to save more lives and avoid a privacy apocalypse

    At the moment, we have the worst of both worlds: researchers struggle to access data yet leaks are almost inevitable

  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
    John Thornhill
    We must stop sleepwalking towards a surveillance state

    Biometric technology is valuable for medical research but can also have malign uses

  • Tuesday, 28 June, 2022
    Biometrics
    UK should immediately ban use of live facial recognition, warns report

    Independent review found an ‘urgent need’ for new legislation on biometric technologies

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    Cost of living crisis
    Sharp rise in energy-related scams as household bills soar in Britain

    Consumer group Which? sounds alarm as people are targeted by increasingly sophisticated fraud attempts

  • Friday, 27 May, 2022
    Benedict Evans
    There is no such thing as ‘data’

    What we have are innumerable different collections of information, each of them specific to a particular application

  • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
    John Thornhill
    The threat of US data harvesting grows as abortion ban looms

    Preserving digital privacy is a triangular game between users, tech companies and legislators

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    Camilla Cavendish
    The NHS needs access to our shared medical data to save lives

    Public debate has been riddled with confusing claims, technical incompetence and vested interests

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    Technology
    Russian forces usurp Ukrainian internet infrastructure in Donbas

    Rerouting traffic to Russia-controlled regions makes Ukrainians’ data vulnerable to interception and censorship by the Kremlin

  • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
    FT MagazineDave Lee
    The great post-Covid privacy creep

    The technology of vaccine verification is assisting our return to normal life but at what cost?

  • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
    Marietje Schaake
    Privacy concerns should not block EU’s attempts to curb big tech power

    While there are details to come about combining security and competition in the Digital Markets Act, it is not mission impossible

  • Monday, 28 March, 2022
    Special ReportNavigating Cyber Risk
    Customer data platforms step up to the challenge of cyber crime

    New systems let businesses record every touchpoint with consumers — but must add extra security

  • Monday, 28 March, 2022
    Special ReportNavigating Cyber Risk
    Contact tracing poses data challenge for hospitality groups

    Small businesses have become accountable for storing personal information — and liable to fines

  • Monday, 28 March, 2022
    Special ReportNavigating Cyber Risk
    Hotels in hackers’ sights as technology replaces personal touch

    Hospitality businesses are the third most targeted for cyber attacks as they gather more customer data

  • Monday, 21 March, 2022
    LexAdvertising
    Digital advertising: companies reliant on behavioural technology need new workarounds Premium content

    Not all big tech groups are ready for new privacy regulations

  • Wednesday, 2 March, 2022
    LexCyber Security
    Cyber security: hacking bolsters prospects for password managers Premium content

    Rising threat means more companies are turning to unique-password creators such as LastPass

  • Monday, 28 February, 2022
    Special ReportRegulated Markets
    ‘Brexit dividend’ rule change prompts fears over data flow with EU

    UK government says plans will benefit the British economy but critics argue they will make business harder

  • Thursday, 24 February, 2022
    Inside BusinessRichard Waters
    EU-US data wrangle tests digital sovereignty

    Brussels unveils push to protect industrial information from foreign government surveillance

  • Wednesday, 16 February, 2022
    Technology sector
    Google to limit ad tracking across apps on Android

    Move comes after Apple introduced user privacy measures that shook $400bn digital ads industry

  • Monday, 14 February, 2022
    Meta Platforms
    Facebook owner Meta sued by Texas over facial recognition system

    Lawsuit seeks billions in damages for claims that social media platform harvested reams of data without consent

  • Wednesday, 2 February, 2022
    Germany
    Top German court instructs Facebook to divulge data on users who insulted MP

    Constitutional court ruling allows Renate Künast to consider legal proceedings against authors of posts

  • Monday, 31 January, 2022
    Special ReportFuture of AI and Digital Healthcare
    Mexican platform advances digital diagnostics in Latin America

    Healthtech Eva enables remote test analysis and broadens access to healthcare by users outside large urban centres

  • Monday, 31 January, 2022
    Special ReportFuture of AI and Digital Healthcare
    Pandemic-led healthcare advances raise ethical and political hurdles

    Health tech has leapt ahead during the Covid era, but communities around the world are not benefiting equally

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