Valentine’s Day isn’t a cause for celebration if you’ve been catfished by a fraudster February 15, 2023 Valentine's Day might be the day of love, but the picture is not that rosy for everyone. Victims of romance fraud still get victim-blamed by the authorities, and it's unfair, writes Rosie Beacon
Amazon shares sink as EU hands down record €746m EU data privacy fine July 30, 2021 Amazon has been hit with a record €746m (£635m) fine for breaking EU rules over how it processed customers’ personal data, the tech giant disclosed today. In a regulatory filing Amazon said the Luxembourg National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD) had issued the ruling against it for breaches of EU data protection rules on 16 [...]
New data: How London fell out of love with Valentine’s Day February 14, 2023 New exclusive data around Valentine’s Day events in London reveals we’re looking for anything but roses and chocolates this year How about a talk on sexuality from from the perspective of Greek and Latin literature for a Valentine’s Day turn-on? Or one on bisexuality from academic campaigners promoting alternatives to heteronormativity? It’s certainly not staring [...]
Sadiq Khan the toast of New York as Hillary Clinton rushes to share limelight with London Mayor May 10, 2022 As Sadiq Khan’s US tour continues, the Mayor of London shared a stage with US political veteran Hillary Clinton in New York City. Khan attended a meeting with the former US presidential hopeful at the Clinton Foundation offices in Manhattan on Monday to discuss issues facing the capital as well as recovery from the coronavirus [...]
Businesses beware as 70 per cent Brits aren’t afraid of taking legal action December 16, 2021 Companies that break the law could find themselves facing more lawsuits from the great British public, as over 70 per cent said they would join a class action – many even against their own employer – according to a new study published today. The study, which polled members of the public on their perceptions of [...]
As the City readies itself for the future, firms rethink their office downsize January 25, 2022 Moments after Boris Johnson announced the end of Plan B Covid-19 restrictions the order went out to civil servants to lead by example – and head back to the office. The edict will have reflected a desire to get people back into the capital and breathe new life into the economy, not least the hospitality [...]
Fit and proper? Time for a regulator to fix football’s broken market March 10, 2022 The word unprecedented is thrown around a lot, and often, it’s overdone. But it has to be said that a major Premier League club being pseudo-nationalised due to its Russian owner’s links with a warmongering dictator in eastern Europe is not something we remember happening all that often. In the immediate term, it is not [...]
Softbank’s internet arm teases plans for launch of NFT marketplace March 10, 2022 Japanese investment giant Softbank Group is cashing in on the NFT craze with the launch of a new marketplace.
We might not be able to control ChatGPT, but we can control the data it consumes May 5, 2023 The UK should lead the way on regulating generative AI, and it should focus on the data used by these systems to do so. After all if the data is biased, so it's the final product, writes Sir Nigel Shadbolt
Ministers clamp down on data stealing and poorly developed apps May 4, 2022 People downloading apps to smartphones, games consoles and TVs will be better protected from hackers under new government plans to boost security standards. A new report on the threats in app stores published today by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has shown that people’s data and money are at risk because of fraudulent apps [...]