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  • Wednesday, 1 October, 2025
    UK makes new attempt to access Apple cloud data

    Order issued in September comes after Trump administration said London had backed down in fight over encryption

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  • Tuesday, 23 September, 2025
    Sarah O'Connor
    Are we on course to become a Little Brother society?

    Trust in our peers could be the casualty as surveillance technology becomes smaller, smarter and cheaper

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  • Thursday, 18 September, 2025
    Elaine Moore
    Is $50 a fair price for your data?

    Personal information is spilling out of us constantly — but some of it is worth more than the rest

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  • Friday, 12 September, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Russians lose internet access as Ukrainian drones hit close to home

    People memorise bus schedules and revert to cash payments amid disruption to online services

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  • Friday, 29 August, 2025
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    UK sought broad access to Apple customers’ data, court filing suggests

    Document indicates British government’s ‘backdoor’ demand was not limited to the company’s most secure iCloud service

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  • Tuesday, 19 August, 2025
    UK has ‘agreed to drop’ demand for access to Apple user data, says US

    Move protects Americans’ civil liberties, Trump’s director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard tells FT

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  • Monday, 18 August, 2025
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    Child safety campaigner hails early impact of UK’s Online Safety Act

    Peer says legislation’s success should ‘give us confidence’ to go further

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  • Tuesday, 29 July, 2025
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    Minister accuses Farage of siding with late paedophile Savile in online safety row

    Peter Kyle said Reform UK leader’s objection to new rules put him on side of predators

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  • Sunday, 27 July, 2025
    Insurance
    Allianz’s US life arm hit by cyber attack

    Insurance company says bulk of its 1.4mn customers exposed by third-party data hack

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  • Thursday, 17 July, 2025
    Meta Platforms
    Meta board settles Delaware case over multibillion-dollar cost of data breaches

    Undisclosed financial agreement ensures figures such as social media chief Mark Zuckerberg will avoid taking the stand

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  • Monday, 14 July, 2025
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    Meta trial becomes test of board culpability over corporate scandals

    Delaware court to hear testimony from Mark Zuckerberg, executives and directors in rare case that begins this week

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  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    Jennifer Huddleston
    Childproofing the internet is a bad idea

    Age verification is well intentioned but it creates new privacy risks

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  • Friday, 13 June, 2025
    Elaine Moore
    Here come the glassholes, part II

    Adding facial recognition to smart glasses may not prove as popular as some in Silicon Valley believe

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  • Sunday, 8 June, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning digital ID project to launch in UK

    Verification service claims it will help distinguish between humans and artificial intelligence

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  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Virgin Media O2
    Virgin Media O2 network flaw allowed customer phones to be tracked

    Company has reported issue to watchdogs and fixed the problem

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  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    Biometrics
    UK must toughen regulation of facial recognition, say AI experts

    Campaigners call on Keir Starmer’s government to create clear laws to tackle growing use of the technology

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  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
    EU tech regulation
    EU investigates Pornhub and other porn sites over child safety

    Brussels wants minors to be able to ‘navigate safely online’

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  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
    German Armed Forces
    ‘Crazy’ data rules hit German plans to boost army reserve

    Reservists’ association says Berlin has lost contact with almost a million potential reservists

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  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    NHS England
    Patient data could power the NHS. Much of it is still stuck on paper

    The UK wants a technological revolution in healthcare but complex information systems will make that hard to deliver

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  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    Special ReportAsia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers
    Japan weighs privacy rules against treatments in healthcare

    The prize is better outcomes, but the price may be sharing more personal details. Lawyers are working on the new rules

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  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
    UK retail industry
    Beware hackers imitating IT help desks, UK cyber agency tells retailers

    National Cyber Security Centre has urged companies to pay attention to so-called social engineering tactics

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  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
    Stephen Bush
    What the New York subway tells us about the future of the internet

    Crime, divided leadership and problematic innovation could all hold back its potential

    Ewan White illustration of a digital hand pulling back a subway wall covered in graffiti to uncover an internet symbol beneath
  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
    TikTok Inc
    TikTok fined €530mn for sending EU user data to China

    Social media group hit by one of the biggest financial penalties ever issued by Ireland’s data protection watchdog

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  • Sunday, 30 March, 2025
    UK Government
    UK tech scheme includes AI tool to mark homework as ministers weigh selling data

    Public records my be monetised as part of National Data Library within a decade, says science secretary Peter Kyle

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  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    Meredith Whittaker
    The war on encryption is dangerous

    Government demands to access encrypted data via back doors will leave it vulnerable to hacks, breaches and theft

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