Apple Employees Arrested for Selling Users Data
A massive underground criminal operation run by employees of an Apple “domestic direct sales company and outsourcing company” to steal and sell the private data of Apple users has been…
EU could give police direct access to cloud data in wake of terror attacks
The European Union is seeking to make it easier for police and law enforcement agencies to retrieve electronic evidence from US tech firms, including directly from cloud storage. In the…
How to Escape Online Spies
Nobody likes being spied on. When you’re innocently browsing the web, it’s deeply unpleasant to think that faceless technology corporations are monitoring and recording your every move. While such data…
Using your personal data is now second nature for politicians
Politicians and electioneers are betting big that at this general election, your data is going to be more important than ever when it comes to swaying your vote in their…
Unroll.me head ‘heartbroken’ that users found out it sells their inbox data
The chief executive of email unsubscription service Unroll.me has said he is “heartbroken” that users felt betrayed by the fact that his company monetises the contents of their inbox by…
Data retention scheme comes into force with civil lawsuit safeguards
Personal data collected under the government’s mandatory data retention scheme, which comes into force on Thursday, will not be able to be used in civil lawsuits, the government has confirmed.…
UK government can force encryption removal, but fears losing, experts say
The government already has the power to force technology firms to act as it wants over end-to-end encryption, but is avoiding using existing legislation as it would force it into…
A guide to the EPA data under threat by the Trump administration
Several highly publicized campaigns are taking place to save the data maintained by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from becoming inaccessible to the public under the Trump administration. “There…
NHS data loss: 500 patients may have suffered serious harm
Five hundred patients may have suffered serious harm as a result of the NHSmislaying 500,000 test results and letters over a five-year period, ministers and officials have admitted in parliament.…
Another NHS crisis looms – an inability to analyse data
Public institutions such as the National Health Service increasingly want—and are expected—to base their actions on nationally agreed standards, rather than anecdote. The collection and analysis of data, when done…