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Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill's office breached transparency laws over Chinese consul meeting, watchdog finds

The Information Commissioner's Office examined the Executive Office's response to requests for minutes of the meeting

Belfast Live

Crypto CEO Pleads Guilty in $21 Million Fraud Scheme

The founder and CEO of Titanium Blockchain Infrastructure admits to using some of the company's ICO money to pay bills…

The Street

UK data watchdog investigates whether AI systems show racial bias

ICO says AI-driven discrimination can lead to job rejections or being wrongfully denied bank loans or benefit

The Guardian - UK

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Predatory marketing calls will be data protection priority, says regulator

Information Commissioner’s Office also planning to support children’s privacy as one of its two key focuses over the next three…

Wales Online

ICO urges ministers to review use of Whatsapp and other private channels

UK data watchdog said there had been extensive use of such channels within the health department, which risked transparency

The Guardian - UK

UK health department reprimanded for use of private messaging services during pandemic

The Information Comissioners Office (ICO) found "extenstive use" of messaging apps like Whatsapp amongst government ministers and officials

The National (Scotland)

Liverpool Council refers itself to Information Commissioner after letter blunder

Some residents across the city have not received the financial support for their energy bills

Liverpool Echo

UK data watchdog to scale back fines for public bodies

Information Commissioner’s Office says users of public services often bear brunt of financial punishments

The Guardian - UK

Parking fines: DVLA breached law over sharing drivers’ details

Agency could face compensation claims after data watchdog rules it applied wrong part of the law

The Guardian - UK

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Facial recognition technology: how it's being used in Ukraine and why it's still so controversial

Facial recognition technology is being used in warfare for the first time. It could be a game changer in Ukraine,…

The Conversation

Glasgow woman behind cold calling firm that made one million nuisance calls

Businesswoman Ashley Dodwell has been banned from running a company after her boiler replacement company Making It Easy when it…

Glasgow Live

Police threatened with fines for unlawfully seizing rape victims’ personal information

Intrusive requests are ‘traumatising’ victims and causing them to drop out of prosecutions, watchdog says

The Independent UK

UK investigators told to stop mass collection of personal data in rape cases

Information commissioner says indiscriminate gathering of details is undermining trust in justice system

The Guardian - UK

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Facial recognition firms should take a look in the mirror

Clearview AI was fined for using internet-sourced images of UK residents in its database – but not before police forces…

The Guardian - UK

TechScape: Clearview AI was fined £7.5m for brazenly harvesting your data – does it care?

The facial recognition firm earned a heavy fine for scraping millions of pictures of people’s faces from social media. But…

The Guardian - UK

Clearview AI cops $13m fine in the UK, with help from Australia

Controversial facial recognition firm Clearview AI has been handed a $13.3 million fine by the UK privacy watchdog following a…

InnovationAus

UK watchdog fines facial recognition firm £7.5m over image collection

Clearview AI hit with penalty for collecting images of people from social media and web to add to global database

The Guardian - UK

Facial recognition company used by British police fined £7.5m over unlawful image database

Service ‘effectively monitors the public’s behaviour and offers it as a commercial service’, watchdog finds

The Independent UK

Cabinet Office condemned by MPs for FoI ‘clearing house’ secrecy

The Independent UK

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Home Office’s visa service apologises for email address data breach

Private contractor running service sent email to applicants containing more than 170 email addresses

The Guardian - UK

Two people suspected of leaking Matt Hancock affair clip won't face criminal action

The leaked images were most likely obtained by someone recording the CCTV footage screens with a mobile phone, the ICO…

Manchester Evening News

Inquiry into leak of Matt Hancock kiss images leads to no prosecutions

ICO finds insufficient evidence against those suspected of capturing footage of minister with colleague

The Guardian - UK

Probe into leak of CCTV images showing Matt Hancock kissing aide dropped due to ‘insufficient evidence’

An investigation into the publication of CCTV images showing former health secretary Matt Hancock kissing his aide has been dropped…

Evening Standard

No prosecutions over leak of CCTV showing Matt Hancock kissing aide

The Information Commissioner’s Office said there was ‘insufficient evidence’.

The Independent UK

Probe into leaked Matt Hancock kiss CCTV closed and no one will be prosecuted

The Information Commissioner issued search warrants for six phones but couldn't find the offending CCTV of Matt Hancock in a…

Daily Mirror