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  • July 07, 2025 07 Jul'25

    Tech firms complicit in ‘economy of genocide’, says UN rapporteur

    A UN special rapporteur has called for technology firms operating in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories to immediately halt their activities, in wider report about the role corporate entities have played in the Israeli state’s ongoing ‘...

  • July 03, 2025 03 Jul'25

    How GoTo’s high-stakes cloud shift is powering its AI future

    The Indonesian tech giant has migrated half its infrastructure to Alibaba Cloud, paving the way for AI initiatives to solve real-world business problems and support local languages

  • June 27, 2025 27 Jun'25

    MPs propose ban on predictive policing

    MPs are attempting to amend the UK government’s forthcoming Crime and Policing Bill so that it prohibits the use of controversial predictive policing systems

  • June 06, 2025 06 Jun'25

    UK ICO publishes AI and biometrics strategy

    The UK data regulator has outlined how it will approach the regulation of artificial intelligence and biometric technologies, which will focus in particular on automated decision-making systems and police facial recognition

  • June 05, 2025 05 Jun'25

    UK’s error-prone eVisa system is ‘anxiety-inducing’

    People experiencing technical errors with the Home Office’s electronic visa system explain the psychological toll of not being able to reliably prove their immigration status in the face of a hostile and unresponsive bureaucracy

  • May 28, 2025 28 May'25

    UK biometric surveillance exists in ‘legal grey area’

    The rapid proliferation of ‘biometric mass surveillance technologies’ throughout the UK’s public and private sectors is taking place without legal certainty or adequate safeguards for the public

  • May 28, 2025 28 May'25

    ANZ firms spending more on data management

    Nearly nine in 10 organisations in Australia and New Zealand increased their overall spend on data management last year to cope with higher data volumes and growing use of artificial intelligence, study finds

  • May 23, 2025 23 May'25

    Essex Police discloses ‘incoherent’ facial recognition assessment

    An equality impact assessment of Essex Police live facial recognition deployments is plagued by inconsistencies and poor methodology, undermining the force’s claim that its use of the technology will not be discriminatory

  • May 21, 2025 21 May'25

    Vast Data launches into AI stratosphere with AgentEngine

    Vast has built out into data management from its roots and will now offer customisable agentic AI agents that can tap into its existing storage, database and messaging capabilities

  • May 14, 2025 14 May'25

    UK government outlines plan to surveil migrants with eVisa data

    Electronic visa data and biometric technologies will be used by the UK’s immigration enforcement authorities to surveil migrants living in the country and to ‘tighten control of the border’, attracting strong criticism from migrant support groups