On November 18th, 2025 with 16 comments
MI5 has warned U.K. lawmakers that Chinese intelligence operatives are using LinkedIn and recruitment fronts to target them for information gathering and...
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On October 23rd, 2025 with 14 comments
A UK tribunal ruled that Apple abused its dominant position by charging app developers unfair commissions through its App Store, potentially costing the...
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On October 8th, 2025 with 23 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: Universities in the UK reassured arms companies they would monitor students' chat groups and social media accounts after...
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On September 28th, 2025 with 63 comments
"Swiss voters have backed plans for electronic identity cards by a wafer-thin margin," reports the Guardian, "in the second nationwide vote on the issue."
In a...
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On September 16th, 2025 with 43 comments
Bruce66423 shares a report from The Guardian: MI5 has conceded it "unlawfully" obtained the communications data of a former BBC journalist, in what was...
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On August 27th, 2025 with 103 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: 4chan and Kiwi Farms sued the United Kingdom's Office of Communications (Ofcom) over its age verification...
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On August 8th, 2025 with 20 comments
Bruce66423 shares a report from the BBC: The body running courts in England and Wales has been accused of a cover-up, after a leaked report found it took...
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On August 6th, 2025 with 112 comments
Bruce66423 shares a report from the BBC: A man who is bringing a High Court challenge against the Metropolitan Police after live facial recognition technology...
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On June 18th, 2025 with 50 comments
The UK Information Commissioner's Office has issued its first guidance demanding manufacturers of air fryers, smart speakers, fertility trackers, and smart TVs...
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On December 15th, 2024 with 36 comments
"There are concerns human rights will be breached," reports the BBC, as Wales police forces launch a facial-recognition app that "will allow officers to use...
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On November 14th, 2024 with 73 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: U.K. consumer rights group 'Which?' is filing a legal claim against Apple under competition law on behalf...
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On October 22nd, 2024 with 44 comments
A judge has allowed Saudi dissident Yahya Assiri to sue the kingdom for allegedly targeting his devices with Pegasus spyware and other Israeli-made...
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On October 12th, 2024 with 78 comments
The Wall Street Journal delves into the origin story of that teenaged Grand Theft Auto VI leaker.
Arion Kurtaj, now 19 years old, is the most notorious name...
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On June 11th, 2024 with 25 comments
British police have arrested two individuals involved in an SMS-based phishing campaign using a unique device police described as a "homemade mobile antenna,"...
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On June 9th, 2024 with 117 comments
It was "a catastrophic IT failure," writes Computer Weekly. It was nearly two years ago that Birmingham City Council, the largest local authority in Europe,...
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On June 6th, 2024 with 18 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Google parent Alphabet must face a lawsuit worth up to $17.4 billion for allegedly abusing its dominance in...
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On April 10th, 2024 with 146 comments
President Joe Biden said he is "considering" a request from Australia to drop the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The BBC reports: The...
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On April 3rd, 2024 with 6 comments
The UK and US have signed a landmark deal to work together on testing advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and develop "robust" safety methods for AI tools...
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On March 25th, 2024 with 29 comments
Earlier today, the U.S. and U.K. accused hackers linked to the Chinese state of being behind "malicious" cyber campaigns targeting political figures. The U.K....
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On March 20th, 2024 with 70 comments
mrspoonsi shares a report from the BBC: A former takeaway worker found with Bitcoin worth more than $2.5 billion has been convicted at Southwark Crown Court of...
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On January 13th, 2024 with 96 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader Geoffrey.landis writes:
Hundreds of British postal workers wrongly convicted of theft due to faulty accounting software could have...
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On December 21st, 2023 with 24 comments
The police will be able to run facial recognition searches on a database containing images of Britain's 50 million driving licence holders under a law change...
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On December 20th, 2023 with 29 comments
A U.S. computer scientist on Wednesday lost his bid to register patents over inventions created by his artificial intelligence system in a landmark case in...
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On October 6th, 2023 with 21 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: A man who admitted attempting to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II with a crossbow after discussing his plan...
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On October 2nd, 2023 with 67 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Britain's passport database could be used to catch shoplifters, burglars and other criminals under...
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On September 6th, 2023 with 20 comments
The UK government will concede it will not use controversial powers in the online safety bill to scan messaging apps for harmful content until it is...
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On September 1st, 2023 with 17 comments
During the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, IBM announced that it would no longer offer "general purpose" facial recognition technology due to concerns...
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On July 5th, 2023 with 65 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: On Christmas Day 2021, royal protection officers detained 19-year-old Jaswant Singh Chail at Windsor...
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On July 1st, 2023 with 109 comments
The New York Times tells the story of Simon Mackenzie, a security officer at a U.K. discount store uploading security camera footage of shoplifters into a...
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On April 21st, 2023 with 24 comments
Mike Lynch, the tech entrepreneur once hailed as Britain's answer to Bill Gates, has lost an appeal against extradition to the US to answer criminal fraud...
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