Why bother with warrants when cops can buy location data for under $10k? How Fog Data Science sells records of your whereabouts, according to the EFF Personal Tech01 Sep 2022 | 36
Vietnam demands Big Tech localize data storage and offices Mandate goes into effect October 1, but industry players will have a year to comply Legal19 Aug 2022 | 5
Toyota's truck brand Hino admits faking and fudging emissions data for 20 years Oh what a failing! Legal03 Aug 2022 | 26
South Korean regulator fears Meta's collecting too much data with revised T&Cs Probes to see if Facebook and Insta could operate with less info than required by revised legalese Legal25 Jul 2022 |
UK government refuses public review before launch of NHS data platform Patients must have the right to decide what information is taken from health records, say privacy campaigners Databases20 Jul 2022 | 130
Need baby formula? Buy a pregnancy test at Walgreens Updated Data privacy, data schmivacy Personal Tech18 Jul 2022 | 10
Russia fines Apple and Zoom for failure to prove domestic data storage Also: Ministry of Digitalization proposes new fine structure for data leaks Legal13 Jul 2022 | 25
UK Info Commissioner slams use of WhatsApp by health officials during pandemic Sure, stuff got done fast – but personal information was put at risk Security12 Jul 2022 | 41
China's cyberspace regulator details data export requirements The countdown to compliance began in January – last year Legal08 Jul 2022 | 1
IBM buys Databand to keep bad data from tainting your AI Upstart promises to tackle that old adage: Garbage in, garbage out AI + ML07 Jul 2022 |
UK, South Korea strike data-sharing pact Time to bone up on Hancom Office, the productivity suite that's big in Korea – and nowhere else Software06 Jul 2022 | 22
Alibaba spins out a biz to productize home-grown data tools Business intelligence and analytics as a service, for marketers and techies Software30 Jun 2022 | 1
Moscow court fines Pinterest, Airbnb, Twitch, UPS for not storing data locally Data sovereignty is more important than Ukrainian sovereignty Legal30 Jun 2022 | 32
Xi Jinping himself weighs in on how Big Tech should deploy FinTech Beijing also outlines its GovTech vision and gets very excited about data Legal24 Jun 2022 | 11
US senators seek ban on sale of health location data With Supreme Court set to overturn Roe v Wade, privacy is key Research17 Jun 2022 | 32
America edges closer to a federal data privacy law, not that anyone can agree on it What do we want? Safeguards on information! How do we want it? Er, someone help! Personal Tech15 Jun 2022 | 7
Splunk dabbles in edgy hardware, lowers data ingestion 'Puck' hardware demoed with customers including Royal Dutch Shell to address big concern: cost Edge + IoT14 Jun 2022 | 3
We've never even built datacenters using robots here on Earth Opinion Interesting Moon experiment raises cool questions about disposal of hidden value Networks30 May 2022 | 43
Vehicle owner data exposed in GM credential-stuffing attack Car maker says miscreants used stolen logins to break into folks' accounts Security25 May 2022 | 29
Bank for International Settlements calls for reform of data governance Wants Big Tech to butt out, and return control to individuals Security06 May 2022 | 10
Ex-Google, Uber AI heads launch ML error-detection platform 'Soul-sucking' data problems were impetus for the founding of Galileo AI + ML04 May 2022 | 1
Don’t expect to get your data back from the Onyx ransomware group The cybercriminals trash files larger than 2MB, forever losing them to the void Security29 Apr 2022 | 13
AWS fixes strange clunks in its on-prem data-crunchers Snowball Edge devices needed annual recertification holidays and required LAN-based management Edge + IoT28 Apr 2022 | 1
Scraping public data from the web still OK: US court Latest LinkedIn blow / Profile harvesting legal / HiQ case rolls on Software19 Apr 2022 | 66
Fake it until you make it: Can synthetic data help train your AI model? Yes and no. It's complicated. AI + ML18 Apr 2022 | 7
Stolen-data market RaidForums taken down in domain seizure Suspected admin who went by 'Omnipotent' awaits UK decision on extradition to US Security12 Apr 2022 | 16
Backup frustration brought this CTO to forefront of ransomware protection Interview Constant versioning of file systems is the way to go, Nasuni cofounder says Storage12 Apr 2022 | 14
EU, US agree on Privacy Shield enhancements Transatlantic data sharing deal confirmed but court challenges ahead, warn lawyers Legal25 Mar 2022 | 41
F-Secure spins out new enterprise security business: WithSecure CEO tells The Reg of new branding ahead of Finnish vendor's corporate split Security24 Mar 2022 | 5
Fresh concerns about 'indefinite' UK government access to doctors' patient data As England's controversial scheme to grab 55 million citizen's medical data is withdrawn, emergency powers are extended Security23 Mar 2022 | 33
China declares a new era of digitization has begun Xi's vision for once-in-a-lifetime transformation includes singular identity cards, shared data, and huge clouds Software18 Mar 2022 | 20
Googlers and co offer video dataset-generating Kubric How your computer-vision model learned to stop worrying and love the Python AI + ML15 Mar 2022 | 1
Deere & Co won't give out software and data needed for repairs, watchdog told Updated Farming groups demand some kind of actual action from regulators Personal Tech07 Mar 2022 | 78
Americans far more willing to hand over personal data As long as it translates into a better user experience Personal Tech23 Feb 2022 | 49
UK.gov threatens to make adults give credit card details for access to Facebook or TikTok Age verification for large chunks of WWW to be mandatory Security08 Feb 2022 | 251
You geeks have inherited the Earth, but what are you going to do with it? Opinion Historians a thousand years hence will talk about us. Let's not muff it Personal Tech27 Dec 2021 | 97
Would you like a side of data with your chips? Silicon-slingers start bundling info with their hardware Intel, Nvidia, and others have figured out you need help getting started with AI AI + ML23 Dec 2021 | 2
Facebook expands bug bounty program to include scraping attacks, two years after it was scraped – hard But still allows limited harvesting Security16 Dec 2021 | 6
Trouble getting REST APIs into GraphQL? Try our low-code approach, says Hasura REST-to-GraphQL data hub also on offer and looking for more contributions Databases15 Dec 2021 | 1
UK and USA seek new world order for cross-border data sharing and privacy They'll even run a competition to help this along Legal09 Dec 2021 | 39
Alibaba splits itself into Chinese and overseas ops Seeks world domination through 'diversified business governance' Off-Prem06 Dec 2021 | 6
Microsoft to 600 million Indians: feel free to hand over some data LinkedIn adds Hindi service to target the world's third-most-spoken language Personal Tech06 Dec 2021 | 4
Pension cold-calling financial services biz cops largest ever fine from UK data watchdog EB Associates facing £140k penalty for 107,000 illegal calls Security01 Dec 2021 | 50
Locked up: UK's Labour Party data 'rendered inaccessible' on third-party systems after cyber attack As membership website goes TITSUP* Security03 Nov 2021 | 67
It's 'near-impossible to escape persistent surveillance' by American ISPs, says FTC Watchdog finds dubious data gathering, illusory solicitations for consent Networks22 Oct 2021 | 22
Beijing explains what China's new data protection law really means – a month after it took effect Orders annual data reviews to ensure compliance with rules on how to handle data that's terrifying to lose, or merely scary Legal01 Oct 2021 | 5
US Supreme Court gives LinkedIn another shot at stymieing web scraping LinkedIn back in play / Supremes kick case back downstairs / hiQ still at risk Personal Tech15 Jun 2021 | 7
Privacy activist Max Schrems on Microsoft's EU data move: It won't keep the NSA away Updated Software giant vows data processing of EU cloud services to stay in EU, which means that currently... Security07 May 2021 | 19
Turns out humans are leading AI systems astray because we can't agree on labeling Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Asking for a friend's machine-learning code AI + ML01 Apr 2021 | 118
Android, iOS beam telemetry to Google, Apple even when you tell them not to – study Search giant insists it's necessary, iTitan didn't have anything to say OSes01 Apr 2021 | 81
Beijing's new privacy rules ban apps collecting unnecessary data, require free service without data slurps Rules are tight, but also leave plenty to the imagination Applications30 Mar 2021 | 14
Clothes retailer Fatface: Someone's broken in and accessed your personal data, including partial card payment details... Don't tell anyone Updated 'Strictly private and confidential'? SERIOUSLY? Security24 Mar 2021 | 42
Another reminder that bias, testing, diversity is needed in machine learning: Twitter's image-crop AI may favor white men, women's chests Strange, it didn't show up during development, says social network AI + ML21 Sep 2020 | 31
Open access journals are vanishing from the web, Internet Archive stands ready to fill in the gaps Diamonds are forever, scholarly articles not so much, it seems Science10 Sep 2020 | 36
Don't want AWS training its AI systems from your pics, text, audio, code? It's now easier to opt out of the slurp And you've told your users their info may be harvested by Amazon, right? Across regions, yeah? AI + ML15 Jul 2020 | 1
Maybe you can teach an old dog new tricks: Information Builders declares itself 'the new ibi', touts AI data tools Rebrand accompanies tech launches as CEO hits 18 months in job Software24 Jun 2020 |
Franco-German cloud framework floated to protect European's data from foreign tech firms slurpage Economy Ministers mark official launch of GAIA-X project SaaS06 Jun 2020 | 63
Wanna force granny to take down that family photo from the internet? No problem. Europe's GDPR to the rescue Grandchild Digital Picture Removal Bootnotes22 May 2020 | 50
Stripe is absolutely logging your mouse movements on websites' payment pages – for your own good, says CEO Online transaction biz intends to clarify its analytics harvesting habit Security22 Apr 2020 | 26
Stop worrying – Larry Ellison and Prez Trump will have this whole coronavirus thing licked shortly with the power of data Comment Revealed: Oracle founder's plan for global wellness On-Prem14 Apr 2020 | 72
Zoom's end-to-end encryption isn't actually end-to-end at all. Good thing the PM isn't using it for Cabinet calls. Oh, for f... Super-crypto actually normal TLS, lawsuit launched over Facebook API usage, privacy policy rewritten Security01 Apr 2020 | 139
Marriott Hotels hacked AGAIN: Two compromised employee logins abused to siphon off 5.2m guests' personal info Updated How many customers' deets? It's not saying just yet Security31 Mar 2020 | 27