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The Latest Breaking News from ICO

Post Office avoids fine over leak of wrongfully convicted operators’ names

ICO reprimands company over accidental publishing of data about people caught up in Horizon IT scandal

The Guardian - UK

Rape, Assault, Theft? Doesn't Matter – UK Ministers' Criminal Records Stay Secret by Law

A controversial ICO ruling allows UK ministers to keep past criminal convictions secret, sparking outrage over transparency, accountability, and public trust.

International Business Times UK

Civil liberties groups call for inquiry into UK data protection watchdog

Campaigners including Good Law Project describe ICO ‘collapse in enforcement activity’ after Afghan data breach

The Guardian - UK

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Confidential information leaked after MoD official left laptop open on train

Exclusive: Details of 49 data breaches at MoD include personal data accidentally sent to a civil service sports club with 140,000 members

The Independent UK

‘A few unrecorded meetings and a handshake’: Damning verdict of probe into major Afghan data breach

Top secret information ‘bandied about like confetti’ during catastrophic Ministry of Defence leak, MP claims

The Independent UK

Capita handed huge £14m fine over security failings which lead to data breach

Capita ‘failed in its duty to protect’ customer data, the ICO found.

TechRadar

Capita Fined £14m Over 2023 Cyber-Attack Failures

Capita fined £14 million by UK watchdog over failures linked to a 2023 cyber-attack that exposed sensitive data and breached security protocols.

International Business Times UK

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Car Loan Payout Frenzy Triggers UK Regulatory Backlash

UK regulators have launched a sweeping crackdown on law firms and claims companies amid a surge in car finance compensation cases, following a Supreme Court ruling on undisclosed commissions.

International Business Times UK

Imgur block: Popular image-hosting platform goes offline in the UK, causing major problems for Reddit

Reddit users and other parts of the internet often rely on Imgur to be a home for pictures

The Independent UK

What Imgur's UK Block Really Means — A Sudden Blackout of Memes, GIFs and Online Culture

Imgur has abruptly blocked UK access, erasing memes, GIFs and years of online culture. The blackout highlights clashes between regulation and digital freedom.

International Business Times UK

Meta to launch ad-free subscription to Facebook and Instagram in UK

It comes after Meta agreed to stop targeting a UK campaigner with adverts based on her personal data in a landmark privacy case earlier this year.

Evening Standard

Facebook and Instagram to become ad-free in UK – but there’s a catch

Meta will release more details about the update in coming weeks

The Independent UK

Public warned to be ‘on guard’ for unlawful robocalls

Robocalls give recipients the impression they are talking to someone from the UK when they are in fact recorded by voice actors and made from abroad.

Evening Standard

Ransomware and the UK’s proposed ban on payments: a measured legal response or risk amplifier?

The UK Government’s proposal to prohibit certain ransomware payments marks a notable shift in national cyber policy landscape - but does it amplify the risk?

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The rise of the student hacker: Dozens of UK schools have fallen victim to insider attacks by their own pupils, worrying ICO research shows

ICO warns students are now responsible for majority of insider cyber attacks in UK schools, often exploiting weak passwords or stolen login details to gain access.

The Guardian - UK

A third of UK firms using ‘bossware’ to monitor workers’ activity, survey reveals

Research suggests increase in office snooping in trend that some managers claim undermines trust with staff

The Independent UK

Increasing number of school cyber attacks caused by their own students

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The Independent UK

Pupils hacking their own schools for fun, watchdog warns

Pupils themselves are responsible for over half of school insider cyber attacks

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Former WNBA star’s mother killed in crash, sparks demands by lawmakers for major policy changes

Ex-WNBA star Sophie Brunner’s mom was 61.

GamesRadar

The games industry might be built on borrowed ideas, but new ones have to come from somewhere – even if Fumito Ueda says "the era of game mechanics is over"

Opinion | Big-budget developers are reliant on indie innovation to keep us entertained

Tom’s Guide

It's not surprising that the Online Safety Act doesn't cover personal data safety

The concerns raised about personal data safety by age verification checks in the UK are not unfounded

The Guardian - UK

‘We got upset, then we got angry’: the couple who took on one of the UK’s biggest cold-call scams

When clients started getting random calls about making personal injury claims, Jan and Michael Reed set out to discover who was stealing data from their family-run garage

The Independent UK

Starmer’s fury over Afghan data breach as he warns Tories ‘have questions to answer’

On a dramatic day in Westminster, questions have been asked over why nobody was sacked for the data breach and why the information commissioner is not planning to investigate

Evening Standard

Ministry of Defence to pay £1.6m compensation for Afghan data breach

The MoD has already been fined £350,000 over the breach, which saw the details of 265 people mistakenly copied into emails sent by the Government.

GamesRadar

Nier creator Yoko Taro reckons "there’s less 'weird people'" making games nowadays although he's not sure if it's "something that's happening to the world as a whole"

Yoko Taro has previously called esoteric titles like Ico "epoch-making"

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