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Data protection

July 2026

  • A screen with the word "password" surrounded by binary numbers.

    Hackers steal sensitive data from UK Department for Education and police

  • A lamp-post with cartoon eyes

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

  • A GP works as a computer screen displays a medical records database

    Alarm at NHS patient records being put under control of US private equity firm

  • A nurse in purple scrubs writes on papers at a mobile workstation in a busy hospital ward

    Palantir isn’t the only option for the NHS

  • ‘How’s this joker got my details?’: BrewDog founder faces complaints over emails to ‘equity punks’

  • Dale Vince to get damages from Daily Mail publisher over misleading article

June 2026

  • Johnny Ryan

    Ireland is big tech’s lapdog – and that compromises its EU presidency

    Johnny Ryan
  • Surveillance cameras and facial recognition equipment mounted on a vehicle roof, with union jack flags in the background

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

  • A man with hands on his head looking at text message speech bubbles on a smart watch screen

    Australian customer service
    I gave my number at an open house. How do I get random real estate agents to stop harassing me?

  • Henna Virkkunen gives speech in the Berlaymont, the EU Commission headquarter

    EU aims to ensure foreign governments or firms cannot disrupt tech services with ‘kill switch’

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

    Newsletter

  • Shared NHS patient records could cut 20,000 A&E visits a year, ministers claim

  • FCA’s Palantir deal could expose UK financial data to Trump’s US, critics fear

May 2026

  • A nurse on an emergency ward wearing dark blue scrubs stands looking at computer screens and taking notes.

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

    Health service has given US tech firm ‘unlimited access’ to certain data to build integrated platform, according to reports
  • design image

    AI facial recognition oversight lagging far behind technology, watchdogs warn

    Exclusive: Biometrics commissioners say face-scanning not as effective as claimed and new laws needed to regulate use

    • How does live facial recognition work and how many UK police forces use it?

    • Dynamic pay on platforms such as Uber should be banned, says TUC

    • UK Biobank has my data, but I’m not worried. I know the benefits are too great to consider pulling out

      Polly Toynbee

April 2026

  • A general view of Alibaba's headquarters in Hangzhou, China

    More private health records of UK Biobank volunteers appear on Chinese website

  • John Edwards, the information commissioner

    UK information commissioner steps back amid workplace investigation

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