Microsoft’s climbdown over its creepy Recall feature shows its AI strategy is far from intelligent
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Fatima Payman admits she ‘upset a few colleagues’ by crossing the floor – as it happened
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Hacked London NHS hospitals data allegedly published online
Cyber-attack earlier this month led to cancellation of almost 1,600 operations and outpatient appointments
Post Office accidentally leaks names and addresses of wrongfully convicted operators
Genetic testing company 23andMe investigated over hack that hit 7m users
Google to start permanently deleting users’ location history
May 2024
Tory party refers itself to watchdog over alleged data breach
Party reportedly copied in more than 300 email addresses in appeal to supporters to sign up for conference
April 2024
Qantas passengers’ personal details exposed as airline app logs users into wrong account
Australian arts in focus
‘Absolute joke’: customers’ personal data exposed amid Pandemonium Rocks festival refund stoush
Lawsuit in London to allege Grindr shared users’ HIV status with ad firms
Jacob Rees Mogg is wrong: Britons do want ID cards
Martha Gill
Tories planned to make millions from members’ data with ‘True Blue’ app
Worried about a bump on your date’s penis? There’s an app for that – but not everyone is convinced
March 2024
Project Syndicate economists
Joe Biden has just dealt a big defeat to big tech
Joseph Stiglitz
US president’s new executive order is an important step towards protecting sensitive personal data
February 2024
Why I quit
I regularly shared photos of my son on social media. Then alarm bells started ringing
Hannah Nwoko
Like millions of doting parents, I wanted to keep others abreast of my child’s milestones. But the ‘likes’ weren’t worth the risks, says freelance journalist Hannah Nwoko
Serco ordered to stop using facial recognition technology to monitor staff
Biometric data of more than 2,000 staff at 38 leisure centres was unlawfully processed to check attendance, watchdog finds
Second accidental data leak in four months ‘regrettable’, finance department says
‘There are no serious safeguards’: can 23andMe be trusted with our DNA?
