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Data protection regulations and compliance
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May 10, 2022
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May'22
‘Spy cops’ inquiry delves into police relationship with MI5
There was ‘no filter’ on the information that undercover police officers were collecting on activists throughout the 1970s, despite senior managers and officials involved in directing the surveillance questioning the appropriateness of the ...
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April 27, 2022
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Apr'22
Russia-supporting cyber crime gang claims Coca-Cola as victim
Stormous cyber crime collective claims to have stolen 161GB of data from Coca-Cola, and says it plans to sell it off
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April 27, 2022
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Apr'22
Ransomware victims paying out when they don’t need to
Sophos’s annual State of Ransomware report shows dramatic increases in the impact of ransomware attacks, but also finds many organisations are paying ransoms when they don’t need to
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April 20, 2022
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Apr'22
How Veeam helped grocery chain Franprix escape its backup hell
French supermarket chain had backup windows that ran well into the next working day and restoring deleted files could take days. It chose Veeam in a contest with Cohesity
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April 19, 2022
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Apr'22
Hammers sign Acronis as backup and security in one
West Ham United set to replace separate backup from Veeam and a variety of security products with Acronis Cyber Protect to have backup, data protection and file share on a single platform
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March 28, 2022
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Mar'22
Backup: N-able emerges from white box to aim at enterprise customers
It spent years integrated with Solarwinds and as a re-sold product, but now it plans to target enterprise customers with a backup product that aims at granular file protection and restore
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March 22, 2022
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Mar'22
Biden issues warning about Russian cyber attacks
President Biden has said that US companies running critical infrastructure should immediately harden their defences in anticipation of potential cyber attacks from Russia
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March 03, 2022
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Mar'22
Direct action is a risky business for Ukraine's volunteer hackers
Hackers have been responding to Ukraine’s call to create an IT army, but there are many reasons why taking direct action in a kinetic conflict is a bad idea
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February 21, 2022
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Feb'22
Backup heads to cloud as ransomware hits 76% and RTOs/RPOs fail
Veeam survey finds most can’t recover the data they want or do it in time, ransomware is now a ‘disaster’, use of the cloud is increasing, but the datacentre is still very important
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February 16, 2022
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Feb'22
Retrospect Backup refines anomaly detection in ransomware battle
StorCentric backup software brand allows customer fine-tuning of anomaly detection in struggle against ransomware, and adds immutable copies via object locking in Azure
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February 15, 2022
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Feb'22
Botched third-party configuration exposes Internet Society data to web
Personal data on members of The Internet Society was exposed after a supplier failed to secure its Azure storage
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February 08, 2022
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Feb'22
Porn sites will be legally required to verify users’ ages
Porn sites could be legally obliged to verify that their users are 18 or over under proposed online safety rules, in UK government’s second attempt to prevent children from accessing pornography online
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February 02, 2022
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Feb'22
British Council data exposed by third-party cyber failure
The British Council entrusted confidential data on its students to a third-party and was let down
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January 31, 2022
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Jan'22
Data on children of armed forces personnel exposed in breach
Data on 4,142 children of serving armed forces personnel was exposed in a data breach at the Ministry of Defence
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January 28, 2022
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Jan'22
Cyber skills gap affecting data privacy practice, finds ISACA
Organisations are struggling to fill both legal and technical privacy roles, with potentially damaging consequences, according to a report
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January 17, 2022
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Jan'22
Test police algorithms in court rather than legislate, Lords told
Police algorithms and their impacts should be tested and challenged in court, rather than controlled by new laws, says policing minister
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January 12, 2022
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Jan'22
OVHCloud hit with customer class action over March 2021 datacentre fire
OVHCloud said it cannot comment at this time on the legal action, which is being embarked upon to compensate customers who claim to have lost data as a result of the public cloud firm’s datacentre fire in March 2021
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December 21, 2021
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Dec'21
Top 10 cloud storage, DR and datacentre storage stories of 2021
Key articles from 2021 that demonstrate the growing importance of cloud storage and disaster recovery, but also the snags that lead to cloud repatriation and difficulties restoring from the cloud
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December 20, 2021
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Dec'21
Top 10 ransomware and backup stories of 2021
Key articles from 2021 that highlight the link between ransomware and snapshots and backup and their role in repelling attacks, plus effects of the pandemic on backup and recovery
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December 15, 2021
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Dec'21
Gig economy algorithmic management tools ‘unfair and opaque’
Report published by Worker Info Exchange warns of algorithmically enabled rights abuses in the gig economy, noting the insufficient transparency of employers and the lacklustre nature of legal redress
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December 14, 2021
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Dec'21
IT priorities 2022: Ransomware and cloud drive storage and backup
The pandemic and the move to the cloud has driven cloud storage as a key priority
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December 01, 2021
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Dec'21
Unesco member states adopt AI ethics recommendation
The non-binding recommendation seeks to define a common set of values and principles to guide the development of ethical AI globally
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November 30, 2021
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Nov'21
Over 100 civil society groups call for changes to EU AI Act
Civil, human and digital rights organisations sign open letter calling on European policymakers to put fundamental rights at the heart of the proposed Artificial Intelligence Act
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November 12, 2021
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Nov'21
New law needed to rein in AI-powered workplace surveillance
MPs and peers call for new legislation to regulate the growing use of artificial intelligence in the workplace, which is being used to surveil workers’ performance and behaviour
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November 12, 2021
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Nov'21
Oversight of biometrics and surveillance should not go to ICO
Biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner Fraser Sampson has panned the UK government’s proposed plan to absorb the functions of those roles under the remit of the information commissioner
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November 09, 2021
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Nov'21
Yoti develops age estimation algorithm for under-13s
Age estimation technology developed by Yoti is being pitched as a way of helping social media platforms and other online businesses protect younger internet users from harm
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November 08, 2021
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Nov'21
Gig economy workforce nearly trebles over five years
Over four million people in England and Wales now work for gig economy platforms at least once a week, marking a nearly threefold increase since 2016
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November 03, 2021
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Nov'21
Facebook self-imposes facial recognition moratorium
Facebook and Meta have committed to halting their use of facial recognition technology and deleting the biometric data of more than a billion people by the end of 2021, but will retain the underlying algorithms and software for potential use in ...
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October 27, 2021
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Oct'21
Cohesity beefs up ransomware and disaster recovery offer
Disaster Recovery as-a-service, Data Govern and project Fort Knox available or in development as data protection supplier augments its portfolio with ransomware firmly in mind
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October 22, 2021
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Oct'21
MEPs vote to expand Europol data mandate
The European Parliament has voted in favour of expanding Europol’s mandate to process data and develop AI tools, but critics claim it contradicts a previous vote which opposed using new technologies to predict crime
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October 12, 2021
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Oct'21
Ban UK police use of facial-recognition, House of Lords told
Experts giving evidence to the House of Lords have said that UK police use of facial-recognition technology is disproportionate and ineffective, and further questioned the utility of algorithmic crime ‘prediction’ tools
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October 11, 2021
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Oct'21
Malaysia’s highway authority improves DR capabilities
The Malaysian Highway Authority is now more resilient against cyber attacks through a local disaster-recovery-as-a-service offering powered by Veeam software
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October 07, 2021
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Oct'21
ICO expresses concerns over its future independence
In its response to the government’s data protection consultation, the Information Commissioner’s Office has raised worries over its future ability to function independently of government interference
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October 01, 2021
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Oct'21
Met Police purchase new retrospective facial-recognition system
Retrospective facial-recognition software purchased for £3m by the Met Police will be deployed in coming months amid continuing controversy around the use of biometric technologies by law enforcement bodies
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September 28, 2021
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Sep'21
Digital regulators need discrete but cooperative remits
The UK’s information commissioner has told MPs that digital economy regulators need discrete remits backed up by strong information sharing powers to both provide clear focus as well as allow for greater cooperation between their disparate but ...
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September 27, 2021
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Sep'21
GCP gets triple-redundant NAS and built-in Kubernetes backup
Google Filestore Enterprise will provide synchronous replication across three zones, while Backup for Google Kubernetes Engine brings built-in container cluster data protection
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September 20, 2021
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Sep'21
NGO Fair Trials calls on EU to ban predictive policing systems
The use of artificial intelligence to predict criminal behaviour should be banned because of its discriminatory outcomes and high risk of further entrenching existing inequalities, claims Fair Trials
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September 15, 2021
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Sep'21
UN human rights chief calls for moratorium on AI technologies
High commissioner’s call for a moratorium on the use of AI systems that pose a serious risk to human rights is accompanied by a UN report on the negative human rights impacts associated with the technology
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August 27, 2021
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Aug'21
Are proposed data protection changes a threat to UK citizens’ privacy?
Though changes are as-yet undefined pending an upcoming consultation, concerns are already being expressed over the government’s plan to liberalise data protection laws in the service of innovation and growth
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August 26, 2021
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Aug'21
Government unveils post-Brexit data flow proposals
The government will pursue data partnerships with countries including Australia, South Korea and the US as part of a post-Brexit data regime that may also see substantial changes to the UK’s data protection law
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August 26, 2021
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Aug'21
NZ privacy lead John Edwards named new information commissioner
DCMS has named John Edwards, currently New Zealand privacy commissioner, to succeed Elizabeth Denham as UK information commissioner
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August 24, 2021
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Aug'21
Over a million opt out of NHS data-sharing
Failure to communicate benefits of data-sharing proposals and privacy concerns are prompting large numbers of people to opt out of a proposed NHS Digital scheme
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August 23, 2021
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Aug'21
Veeam survey: Big cloud impact on backup and disaster recovery
Backup specialist finds cloud eclipses on-site compute for all workloads while DR makes big strides in the cloud despite concerns about complexity and security
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August 19, 2021
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Aug'21
Pub apps harvesting swathes of customer data unnecessarily
Some pub and restaurant chain apps demand data such as gender and marital status, raising eyebrows among privacy campaigners
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July 28, 2021
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Jul'21
Almost half unaware of GP data-sharing plans
Around half of adults in England – approximately 20 million people – remain unaware of the scope of the NHS GPDPR programme, prompting calls for a public education campaign
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July 13, 2021
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Jul'21
Secureworks sets up in EU datacentre for XDR services
New datacentre location helps Secureworks’ customers meet EU data residency requirements
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June 23, 2021
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Jun'21
City of York picks Barracuda Networks for data protection
York Council needed to refresh its backup service to bring new security protections after it went ‘all-in’ on Microsoft Office 365
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June 18, 2021
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Jun'21
UK taskforce calls for cutting GDPR protections
The UK’s Taskforce on Innovation, Growth and Regulatory Reform has recommended scrapping safeguards against automated decision-making contained in the General Data Protection Regulation
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June 15, 2021
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Jun'21
The Security Interviews: How to build a government model to ‘hack for good’
Kyle Hanslovan started Huntress to give back after a career in the intelligence sector. After US authorities took action to help people hit by the Microsoft Exchange attacks, we discussed how governments can ‘hack for good’
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June 09, 2021
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Jun'21
Cohesity brings DataProtect backup-as-a-service to Europe via AWS
Scale-out backup appliance pioneer adds backup-as-a-service from a virtual machine on customer premises