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Data watchdog reprimands police force for mixing up 2 people with same name and birthday with disastrous results The UK's Information Commissioner's Office has put the West Midlands Police (WMP) on the naughty step after the force was found to have repeatedly mixed up two people's personal data for years.…
The Home Office failed to assess the privacy intrusion of the continuous collection of migrants’ location information in breach of UK data protection law, according to the ICO
Home Office Electronic Migrant Tracking System Violates UK GDPR, Says ICOA defunct U.K. Home Office pilot project that tracked the whereabouts of 600 migrants violated British privacy law, the British data regulator said early Friday in London, giving the agency a deadline of nearly a month to bring its data processing requirements under compliance.
The UK government provided a preview of its future Cybersecurity Governance Code of Practice, which aims to be the go-to cyber guideline for UK business leaders
UK Information Commissioner John Edwards explains how the ICO is working to provide clarity around the lawful use of AI
Cifas claims that most business decision makers are worried about fraudsters targeting employees
CISA and its counterparts in the UK and other countries this week offered new guidance on how to deal with the threat actor's recent shift to cloud attacks.
2,000 employees at 38 facilities had data processed 'unlawfully', ICO says A data protection watchdog in the UK has issued an enforcement notice to stop Serco from using facial recognition tech and fingerprint scanning to monitor staff at 38 leisure centers it runs.…
Also, another fake iOS app slips into the store, un-cybersafe EV chargers leave UK shelves, and critical vulns in brief A Florida journalist has been arrested and charged with breaking into protected computer systems in a case his lawyers say was less "hacking," more "good investigative journalism." …
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre is preparing a new cyber governance training pack for boards