There is no denying the fact that the compulsory Qatari World Cup apps, Ehteraz, a Covid-19 tracker from the Qatari Ministry of Public Health, and Hayya from the Qatari Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy for the World Cup, will be collecting a lot of information on everyone attending. This …
Data Sovereignty – who can access what and where. UPDATED
The original post was published on 3 November 2022. Update 16 November 2022 This story has developed further with FBI Director Christopher A. Wray describing to the US Congress how China could exploit Tik Tok: FBI Director warns of potential Chinese gov’t exploitation of TikTok – The Record by Recorded …
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It looks like the Online Safety Bill is in chaos
I have my issues with the UK Online Safety bill, but overall I think it has some promise to protect the vulnerable – but this report in The Guardian is showing that the bill my be heading for chaos: UK government criticised for failing to protect children from online harm …
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Student information published online
The Bishop of Hereford’s Bluecoat School has suffered a cyber-attack that has resulted in confidential student information getting into the public domain. Pupils’ data spread online in Hereford school cyber attack – BBC News The school has been open about the attack but is awaiting the outcome of the police …
“Stole my Face”
With a headline like this and it dealing with an individual’s privacy battle against Big Tech, I had to point you at this article: Clearview Stole My Face and the EU Can’t Do Anything About It | WIRED UK When I was at university I was particularly interested in privacy …