That niche forum running for 20 years – get ready, there's work to do Analysis A little more than two months out from its first legal deadline, the UK’s Online Safety Act is causing concern among smaller online forums caught within its reach. The legislation, which came into law …

Danish military confirms it is monitoring as Swedish police investigate. Cloudflare says impact was 'minimal' The Danish military has confirmed it is tracking a Chinese ship that is under investigation after two optical fiber internet cables under the Baltic Sea were damaged.... [...]

Draft doc struggles to describe how theoretically encryption-busting powers might be used The UK government has set out plans detailing how it will use the new law it has created to control online platforms and social media – with one telling exception.... [...]

British grocer's workers called back to office as clock ticks for contractors The head of tech security at Asda, the UK's third-largest food retailer, has left amid an ongoing tech divorce from US grocery giant Walmart.... [...]

Access to account info needed to tackle benefit fraud, latest bill claims Privacy campaigners are criticizing UK proposals to force banks to share data from the accounts of government benefit claimants, saying the ploy amounts to "a financial snoopers' charter targeted to automate suspicion."... [...]

CEO Pavel Durov charged in France, messaging platform insists it abides by EU laws Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, who was cuffed and charged by the French police last week, was "too free" in his approach to managing the global messaging platform, according to Russia's foreign minister.... [...]

Watchdog reprimand follows similar cases in 2021 The UK's data protection watchdog has reprimanded a school in Essex for using facial recognition for canteen payments, nearly three years after other schools were warned about doing the same.... [...]

Move follows Instagram and Facebook giant's decision to reverse direction in EU after protests A UK data rights campaign group has launched a complaint with the data law regulator against Meta’s change of privacy policy which allows it to scrape user data to develop AI models.... [...]

Privacy group seeks clarification of whether EU data protection law has been breached A privacy campaign group with a strong record in legal upheavals has asked the Austrian data protection authority to investigate Microsoft 365 Education to clarify if it breaches transparency provisions under GDPR.... [...]

Has social media biz done enough to comply with Digital Services Act? Maybe not The European Commission has opened formal proceedings to assess whether Meta, the provider of Facebook and Instagram, may have breached the Digital Services Act (DSA) in areas linked to the protection of minors.... [...]

Europe takes action after Facebook parent withdraws monitoring tool The European Commission has launched formal proceedings against Meta, alleging failure to properly monitor distribution by "foreign actors" of political misinformation before June's European elections.... [...]

Platforms should not confront users with 'binary choice' over personal data use The EU's Data Protection Board (EDPB) has told large online platforms they should not offer users a binary choice between paying for a service and consenting to their personal data being used to provide targeted advertising.... [...]

Cloud cyber resilience model could raise $700M despite $278M losses Cloud security provider Rubrik has filed for an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange following a flurry of similar flotations.... [...]

2,000 employees at 38 facilities had data processed 'unlawfully', ICO says A data protection watchdog in the UK has issued an enforcement notice to stop Serco from using facial recognition tech and fingerprint scanning to monitor staff at 38 leisure centers it runs.... [...]

Defenses need a rethink in face of increasing sophistication Cyber attacks using AI-generated deepfakes to bypass facial biometrics security will lead a third of organizations to doubt the adequacy of identity verification and authentication tools as standalone protections.... [...]