What Palantir’s £330 million NHS data contract means for patients, privacy and the future of healthcare data in the UK.
- Professor of Cybersecurity, Head of School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
Online age verification technology is not as mature and safe as government and regulators would like it to be.
AI was mentioned several times in the spring budget, but the science that might deliver the next generation of technologies was mostly absent.
The latest NHS data sharing scheme looked set to repeat past mistakes – but the latest postponement provides hope.
A glance over the NHS app’s new privacy policy has revealed the wider, potentially concerning scope of vaccine passports.
Google’s shift to ‘profiling’ is being billed as a privacy boon – but it’s also a strategic pivot.
We don’t know what NHSX or its private partners Palantir and Faculty are doing with medical data.
Tech firms should be forced to reassess how they impact society under existing EU law.
But despite the UK’s alarmist tone on the incoming NIS directive, it’s not just about the hefty £17m fines.
It turns out you can’t ensure cyber-security in the world’s fifth-largest employer if there’s no one in charge of making it happen.
Data-privacy advocates may have won the care.data battle, but it looks like they’re about to lose the war.
There are advantages, too.
Apple is pushing back against the FBI’s order to decrypt the iPhone of San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizwan Farook for the sake of privacy and security.
Having aggressively marketed its privacy credentials for the last two years, Apple’s contribution to the consultation is not surprising.
The snooper’s charter is here, and it’s as bad as expected. Here’s three problems that need fixing.
Google and the media have done their bit to try and subvert the right to be forgotten, but an ICO ruling suggests its beginning to take notice.
Repeated data panics have left the public in a state of anger and confusion. How does NHS England fix the problem?
Declared ‘unachievable’ by a treasury watchdog, the zombie care.data scheme is back and still full of holes.
Committee report reveals ‘citizens dossiers’ feared but never admitted to have existed for decades.
The European Commission’s annual Eurobarometer Cyber Security Survey, the third edition of which was recently released, is a substantial survey of more than 27,000 respondents from 28 countries. It contains…
After the European Court of Justice ruled that there was a “right to be forgotten” from Google’s search results, Google’s Advisory Council embarked on a roadshow aimed at debating the issue. While this…
While there is only one world power on the internet, that situation will not last forever. The internet’s underpinning technologies were mostly created in the US, the initial networks were based there…
Legendary Dutch computer scientist Edsger W Dijkstra famously remarked that “testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs”. In fact the only definitive way to establish that software is correct…
At the recent Information Security Solutions Europe conference, former White House cybersecurity adviser Howard Schmidt claimed that most security threats may be persistent, but are not as “advanced” as…
FireChat, the mobile phone app that allows users to communicate directly with each other through Bluetooth and Wi-Fi instead of through the existing telecoms network, has demonstrated its usefulness in…
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