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The ICO is taking action against the Cabinet Office because of lengthy and unexplained FOI delays. In a new practice recommendation the ICO is highly critical of the Cabinet Office approach to FOI, telling it to supply quarterly updates for monitoring of its future performance.

A VPN is not a tool for anonymity, and while it can protect your location from some companies, there are many other ways companies may track you.

The inspector’s report
‘criticised the Home Office's use of "generic physical characteristics" and "failing to take into account the young person's individual circumstances".’

It will take more than facial recognition systems to properly assess the age of migrants.

Have now made a Freedom of Information Request, so let's see if we find out how much the University of Warwick paid Vogue Singapore to advertise one of their senior leadership team with photos of his wardrobe ('talent's own'). www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/cost...

Lawful access nerds may remember the US Justice Dept report a few months ago on implementation of the US-UK Cloud Agreement. One of the things they were not happy about was UK telecoms operators making case by case UK GDPR assessments. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25... 1/2

The work Ofcom does on EPG prominence for PSBs is hugely important for the UK's media ecosystem. Great to see it being updated to reflect more people's digital reality.

We just translated a wave of our ICE coverage into Spanish. No paywall, no email signup necessary. From leaks about Palantir's work with ICE to ICE's new facial recognition app, we think there is a massive public interest in this info. Read why and support us here: www.404media.co/were-publish...

A Startup is Selling Data Hacked from Peoples’ Computers to Debt Collectors Infostealer data can include passwords, email and billing addresses, and the embarrassing websites you use. Farnsworth Intelligence is selling to to divorce lawyers and other industries.

New from 404 Media: a startup is selling data hacked from peoples' computers to debt collectors, divorce lawyers, more. People already hacked, now being re-vicitmized by startup. I used the tool, found peoples' personal addresses.

“This is so gross and predatory.”

www.404media.co/a-startup-is...

this is the very technology orgs like the UN is adopting to "solve" gender inequity

Again - the reason the Irish government/nationalists in Northern Ireland wanted a reference to the ECHR in the Good Friday Agreement is that the European Court of Human Rights had held the UK accountable for human rights abuses in NI - whereas "domestic UK and common law principles" had not

Legislators should never accept government assurances about the use of what seems like an overly-broad statutory power in lieu of proper legal safeguards, because one day the power will be used, the assurances won't be justiciable, and the words in the statute will be taken as justification enough.

‘The UK official added this “limits what we’re able to do in the future, particularly in relation to AI regulation”.

The Labour government has delayed plans for AI legislation until after May next year.’

UK government seeks way out of clash with US over Apple encryption Officials fear technology deals with Washington could be impeded after Trump administration weighs in

on.ft.com/40Wjzyw UK government seeks way out of clash with US over Apple encryption

UK government seeks way out of clash with US over Apple encryption

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Flight Manifests Reveal Dozens of Previously Unknown People on Three Deportation Flights to El Salvador Hacked data obtained by 404 Media reveals dozens more people on deportation flights to El Salvador who are unaccounted for. “We have not heard from these people’s families, so I think perhaps even the...

We found hacked data that revealed dozens of people on deportation flights to El Salvador are missing.

🔗 www.404media.co/flight-manif...

Norwegian files complaint after ChatGPT falsely said he had murdered his children Arve Hjalmar Holmen, who has never been accused of or convicted of a crime, says chatbot’s response to prompt was defamatory A Norwegian man has filed a complaint against the company behind ChatGPT after the chatbot falsely claimed he had murdered two of his children. Arve Hjalmar Holmen, a self-described “regular person” with no public profile in Norway, asked ChatGPT for information about himself and received a reply claiming he had killed his own sons. Continue reading...

Norwegian files complaint after ChatGPT falsely said he had murdered his children

Maurene Comey warns her former colleagues: ‘Fear is the tool of the tyrant’ “If a career prosecutor can be fired without reason, fear may seep into the decisions of those who remain. Do not let that happen,” she wrote.

EXCLUSIVE: Fired DOJ prosecutor Maurene Comey sends message to former colleagues, warning that ‘Fear is the tool of the tyrant.’

Fabulous looking opportunity for people interested in digital and governance solutions to environmental problems, ofc including gen AI.. wccl2026.com/en/workshops...
And in Bogota!!!

Ofcom head says age checks are ‘really big moment’ for children’s online safety Melanie Dawes says rules will protect children from harmful content but campaigners are unconvinced

The thing about age verification is that interfamily device security is generally a mess. Everyone knows everyone's passwords, people share devices. The main thing age verification will do is make lots of money for age verification vendors www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘News first broke in 2014 after Catherine Corless, who was working on a history project, tracked down death certificates for nearly 800 children for whom there were almost no burial records … Little was done until she went to the media.’

Data Protection risks to life: Should more be done? The Secretary of State for Defence announced on 16 July, a significant data protection breach relating to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy

I’ve written up my thoughts for the @mishcondereya.bsky.social website, on the baffling decision by the ICO to take no action in response to the most catastrophic data breach in UK history, which exposed many thousands of people to immediate risk to their lives.

www.mishcon.com/news/data-pr...

14 years, I think you'll find! Some of them even pretty good ones. Srsly, it's a tremendous place and a great opportunity.

a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'

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I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.

ICE Lawyers Are Hiding Their Names in Immigration Court ICE attorneys fighting to deport immigrants are able to obscure their identities — no masks required.

Lawyers for ICE are increasingly hiding their identities in court. This is completely unprecedented.

“We’re not really doing names publicly,” said Judge ShaSha Xu — after stating her own name and those of the immigrants and their lawyers.

theintercept.com/2025/07/15/i...

A costly shambles for the British state Super-injunction thwarted scrutiny of a data leak and Afghan resettlement scheme

on.ft.com/46dUS46 A costly shambles for the British state

Germany’s top court throws out complaint about US drone attacks via Ramstein base Satellite infrastructure in southwestern Germany is used in American strikes.

The German Federal Constitutional Court ruled today that Germany is not violating international law by allowing the US to partly operate drones from its territory.

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