In a deployment that is regarded as enabling as many as 40,000 first responders to communicate safely over the next decade, Motorola Solutions company Dansk Beredskabskommunikation (DBK) has been awarded an eight-year contract by the Danish National Police’s Centre for Emergency Communication (CFB) to implement and continue to operate the nationwide public safety communications network. … Leer más
Legionella is increasingly in the news, and problematic and traditional methods of water outlet and sentinel temperature monitoring associated with reducing its risk have proved to be resource intensive, manual, costly and prone to error. To address this, Sigfox operator and independent internet of things (IoT) network operator Heliot Europe has entered into a partnership … Leer más
Greece’s data protection watchdog is set to issue a long-awaited decision on the legality of controversial high-tech surveillance and security systems deployed in the country’s refugee camps. The Greek Data Protection Authority’s (DPA) decision, expected by the end of the year, concerns in part a new multimillion-euro Artificial Intelligence Behavioural Analytics security system, which has … Leer más
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has issued a preliminary opinion which opens the way for data obtained from an encrypted phone network hacked by French police to be lawfully used as evidence in prosecutions in Europe, but leaves critical legal questions for national courts to resolve. The advocate general of the European Court of … Leer más
A gang of native English-speaking cyber criminals who began their careers as social engineers in support of so-called SIM swapping attacks and cryptocurrency fraud, and have since graduated to cyber extortion, is rapidly emerging as one of the most dangerous financially motivated cyber crime groups operating today, according to information on the gang released by … Leer más
The government’s controversial Online Safety Bill has become law amid continued concerns from tech companies that it could damage the privacy of encrypted communications. The Online Safety Act, which aims to make the internet safer for children, received royal assent in Parliament on 26 October 2023. The act places legal duties on technology companies to … Leer más
Some of the UK’s most prominent charities working to prevent violence against girls and women have warned that the automatic opening up of NHS GP records for patients to view online or via the NHS app – which comes into effect on 31 October – will put the personal safety of victims of domestic abuse … Leer más
The policing minister’s “egregious proposal” to link the UK’s passport database with facial recognition systems is “unethical and potentially unlawful”, according to the Scottish biometrics commissioner. At the start of October 2023, policing minister Chris Philp, speaking at a fringe event of the Conservative Party Conference, outlined his plans to integrate data from the police … Leer más
The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee recently took evidence from Ofcom and other regulators looking at the governance of artificial intelligence (AI). Regulator readiness Ofcom sees part of its role as the regulator for online safety and it supports the government’s proposed non-statutory approach to AI regulation. In written evidence submitted to the committee, Ofcom … Leer más
Google is taking steps to address cyber risks associated with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) by expanding its bug bounty scheme, the Vulnerability Rewards Program (VRP) to encompass attack scenarios specific to the generative AI supply chain. Laurie Richardson, vice-president of trust and safety, and Royal Hansen, vice-president of privacy, safety and security engineering, said the … Leer más