Microsoft has outlined an AI troubleshooting feature for Edge that will collect diagnostic information with users’ consent, promising to limit collection to the problem being investigated while acknowledging that its advice may not always be right. What Is Microsoft Introducing? Called “Fix an issue”, the feature (found in Edge’s settings) […]
Posted in News Also tagged AI, Collection, EdgeThe Supreme Court is considering whether compensation claims for data protection breaches must meet a minimum level of seriousness, in a case that could affect how businesses handle demands for damages as lawyers warn that AI is making complaints easier to produce. What Is The Court Deciding? The court heard […]
Posted in News Also tagged Breach, CourtMost Metropolitan Police personnel had not completed mandatory data protection training, according to figures discussed at the London Assembly, raising questions about how the force protects sensitive information after breaches exposed victims’ identities and contact details. What Has Been Revealed? At the Assembly’s Police and Crime Committee on 23 September, […]
Posted in News Also tagged Met, Police, TrainingFresh controversy has erupted around the NHS Federated Data Platform after reports claimed Palantir contractors and other external staff could be granted much broader access to identifiable patient data inside one of the NHS’s most sensitive systems. What’s Happening To Our Health Data? According to a recent report in the […]
Posted in News Also tagged NHS, Patient DataMedical data from 500,000 UK Biobank participants was briefly listed for sale online in China after being accessed by authorised researchers who breached data-sharing rules. The UK government confirmed the datasets appeared on Alibaba, uploaded by three institutions with legitimate access. This was not a hack but a misuse of […]
Posted in News Also tagged Biobank, Medical, SecurityA technical issue on the UK’s company register may have exposed personal data linked to millions of businesses. The problem affected Companies House, which holds records for over five million UK firms. A system fault reportedly allowed certain details, such as names and contact information, to be accessed or surfaced […]
Posted in News Also tagged Companies House, Glitch, SecurityA short-lived IT fault at Lloyds Banking Group has raised serious questions about how modern banking systems handle and protect customer data. What Happened? Last Thursday morning, customers using apps from Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland reported seeing transactions that did not belong to them. In some cases, […]
Posted in News Also tagged App, Customer, Glitch, LloydsGoogle has updated its “Results about you” tool to help people find and remove personal information such as home addresses, phone numbers and email addresses from Google Search results. The feature allows users to monitor whether their details appear in search results and request that links containing that information be […]
Posted in News Also tagged Google, SecurityBrowser extensions can read and change the content of websites you visit, so regularly reviewing and removing unused extensions in Chrome or Microsoft Edge is a quick way to reduce the risk of unnecessary access to email, documents and other business information viewed in your browser. Why This Matters Browser […]
Posted in News Also tagged Browser, Business, ExtensionsResearchers warn that private conversations with AI chatbots may be ending up in commercial databases sold by data brokers. It’s been reported that AI visibility researcher Lee S Dryburgh found that some browser extensions marketed as free VPNs or ad blockers can intercept traffic to services such as ChatGPT, Gemini, […]
Posted in News Also tagged AI, Brokers, TranscriptsA UK data centre has demonstrated that artificial intelligence infrastructure can reduce its electricity consumption by up to 40 per cent in response to grid signals without interrupting critical computing workloads. A UK-First Trial Of Flexible AI Infrastructure The demonstration took place at Nebius’s “AI Factory” data centre near London […]
Posted in News Also tagged AI, Data CentreThe world’s biggest hard drive manufacturers have already allocated all the units they will produce this year after hyperscale AI and cloud operators secured the bulk of available capacity. AI Infrastructure Buys Up The Year Western Digital and Seagate have both confirmed that their nearline hard drive production for calendar […]
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