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June 2026

  • Donald Trump and Peter Thiel.

    FCA’s Palantir deal could expose UK financial data to Trump’s US, critics fear

    Exclusive: MP and campaigners say sensitive citizen and company data could be subject to US disclosure laws

May 2026

  • A man working on a computer in a dark room

    Canvas hack: is it ever a good idea to pay a ransom, and what happens to the data?

    Businesses are advised against paying – but many are prepared to deal to protect users’ privacy
  • A smartphone displays Reddit's login screen in front of the Reddit logo mascot on a red background

    Upload government papers to go online? That may be our new terrifying future

    Aliya Bhatia
    Requirement to upload documents for the purpose of ‘age verification’ is coming to platforms near you

    • Scanned, tackled, arrested: how live facial recognition was piloted on the streets of Croydon

    • AI facial recognition oversight lagging far behind technology, watchdogs warn

    • How does live facial recognition work and how many UK police forces use it?

April 2026

  • Aerial view of a bank and its parking lot.

    US supreme court hears whether smartphone location data warrants infringe users’ privacy

  • Automated storage system at UK Biobank's genome sequencing facility

    Private health records of half a million Britons offered for sale on Chinese website

  • Gold coloured shelves storing hundreds of samples

    What is the UK Biobank project and what are the privacy concerns around it?

  • a plane flies

    JetBlue sued over claims it uses customers’ personal data to set ticket prices

  • Apple’s Tim Cook leaves behind complicated legacy on privacy

  • Building power
    Now you can break up with big tech at a bar: ‘cybersecurity disguised as a party’

  • ‘About bloody time’: Prince Harry welcomes lawsuits against tech firms

  • I wore Meta’s smartglasses for a month – and it left me feeling like a creep

March 2026

  • A man checks his phone at the waterfront, with a tourist junk boat in the backdrop, on a foggy day in Hong Kong, China, 6 March, 2024.

    Hong Kong police can demand phone and computer passwords under amended national security law

  • Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, offers a pair of hundred-dollar bills to attendees during a keynote address at the Bitcoin Conference

    Palantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA data

  • People moving into a pixelated area while gold coins fall around them.

    Reworked
    Thousands of people are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost?

  • A man in a blue suit sitting at a table looking down at notes.

    Why is the FBI buying people’s location data and how is it using the information?

  • Reform UK may breach data laws with free energy bills competition

  • Confidential health records from UK BioBank project exposed online

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