Opinion
You geeks have inherited the Earth, but what are you going to do with it?
Historians a thousand years hence will talk about us. Let's not muff it
27 Dec 2021 14:00 | 96
Data
Articles tagged with Data
AI + ML
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
23 Dec 2021 01:59 | 2
Security
Facebook expands bug bounty program to include scraping attacks, two years after it was scraped – hard
But still allows limited harvesting
16 Dec 2021 01:33 | 6
Databases
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
15 Dec 2021 12:30 | 1
Legal
UK and USA seek new world order for cross-border data sharing and privacy
They'll even run a competition to help this along
09 Dec 2021 08:16 | 39
Off-Prem
Alibaba splits itself into Chinese and overseas ops
Seeks world domination through 'diversified business governance'
06 Dec 2021 06:01 | 6
Personal Tech
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
06 Dec 2021 03:30 | 4
Security
Pension cold-calling financial services biz cops largest ever fine from UK data watchdog
EB Associates facing £140k penalty for 107,000 illegal calls
01 Dec 2021 13:50 | 50
Security
Locked up: UK's Labour Party data 'rendered inaccessible' on third-party systems after cyber attack
As membership website goes TITSUP*
03 Nov 2021 15:06 | 67
Networks
It's 'near-impossible to escape persistent surveillance' by American ISPs, says FTC
Watchdog finds dubious data gathering, illusory solicitations for consent
22 Oct 2021 19:52 | 22
Legal
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
01 Oct 2021 05:59 | 5
Personal Tech
US Supreme Court gives LinkedIn another shot at stymieing web scraping
LinkedIn back in play / Supremes kick case back downstairs / hiQ still at risk
15 Jun 2021 00:08 | 7
Updated
Privacy activist Max Schrems on Microsoft's EU data move: It won't keep the NSA away
Software giant vows data processing of EU cloud services to stay in EU, which means that currently...
07 May 2021 15:20 | 19
AI + ML
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
01 Apr 2021 21:04 | 118
OSes
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
01 Apr 2021 07:10 | 81
Applications
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
30 Mar 2021 01:35 | 14
Updated
Clothes retailer Fatface: Someone's broken in and accessed your personal data, including partial card payment details... Don't tell anyone
'Strictly private and confidential'? SERIOUSLY?
24 Mar 2021 13:02 | 42
AI + ML
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
21 Sep 2020 20:47 | 31
Science
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
10 Sep 2020 07:04 | 36
AI + ML
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?
15 Jul 2020 11:28 | 1
Software
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
24 Jun 2020 19:21 |
SaaS
Franco-German cloud framework floated to protect European's data from foreign tech firms slurpage
Economy Ministers mark official launch of GAIA-X project
06 Jun 2020 09:21 | 63
Bootnotes
Wanna force granny to take down that family photo from the internet? No problem. Europe's GDPR to the rescue
Grandchild Digital Picture Removal
22 May 2020 05:04 | 50
Security
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
22 Apr 2020 21:50 | 26
Comment
Stop worrying – Larry Ellison and Prez Trump will have this whole coronavirus thing licked shortly with the power of data
Revealed: Oracle founder's plan for global wellness
14 Apr 2020 08:56 | 72
Security
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
01 Apr 2020 05:11 | 139
Updated
Marriott Hotels hacked AGAIN: Two compromised employee logins abused to siphon off 5.2m guests' personal info
How many customers' deets? It's not saying just yet
31 Mar 2020 16:01 | 27
Personal Tech
NHS websites will no longer burn up your mobile data allowance, say Brit telcos
Coronavirus advice to become free to view even if you're out of credit
19 Mar 2020 16:17 | 16
Software
7 years after hooking up, SAP gets much, much cosier with Ariba's supply chain and procure-to-pay software
ERP giant targets unified master data management and data model
19 Mar 2020 12:30 | 1
Science
After 1.5 million days of computer time, SETI@home heads home to probe potential signs of alien civilizations
'We're now approaching the point to do the analysis and write-up,' co-founder tells El Reg
04 Mar 2020 00:12 | 69
Science
Oh good, the FTC has discovered acqui-hires... American watchdog to probe decade of Big Tech takeovers
Hope they've got a dump truck or three to deliver paperwork covering years of acquisitions
11 Feb 2020 20:30 | 13
Exclusive
Revealed: NHS England bosses meet with tech and pharmaceutical giants to discuss price list of millions of Brits' medical data
Nine 'commercial models' to access central database mulled at hush-hush meeting
12 Dec 2019 06:06 | 191
Security
Amnesty slams Facebook, Google over 'pervasive surveillance' business model
Rights warriors want governments to actually, y'know, do something – anything
21 Nov 2019 00:25 | 25
Networks
London has decent 5G availability but speeds lag behind Birmingham and Cardiff – research
Over 60% access better than anything found in US and SK
19 Nov 2019 12:34 | 22
Legal
Microsoft embraces California data privacy law – don't expect Google to follow suit
Software giant promises to extend protections across US
12 Nov 2019 00:42 | 22
Legal
Tech and mobile companies want to monetise your data ... but are scared of GDPR
Are you guys also feeling a bit teary and sad for those poor, poor businesses?
05 Nov 2019 09:03 | 68
Software
GraphQL a cut above the REST, say query lang's fans: Airbnb, Knotel, others embrace the tech
Data-fetching scheme seems to be catching on
31 Oct 2019 10:43 | 9
On-Prem
Who's the leakiest of them all? It's the UK's public sector, breach fine analysis reveals
Ah, the old lost disk scenario...
28 Oct 2019 09:15 | 16
Personal Tech
The Great Data Takeout: Facebook, Google etc may be forced to hand over control of your info via an API (for a fee)
Delivery may be slow: US lawmakers, NIST still figuring it all out
23 Oct 2019 20:51 | 6
Legal
UK culture sec hints at replacing TV licence fee, defends encryption ban proposals and her boss in Hacker House inquiry
Nuggets from Nicky Morgan's grilling by select committee
17 Oct 2019 12:12 | 186
Legal
Heavy data protection regulation looms in Labour plans for post-Brexit flows and IoT devices
Westminster Hall debate shows parties in harmony over sticking their oar in
08 Oct 2019 10:00 | 10
On-Prem
Pesky legacy kit! It's stopping UK.gov getting at your data – watchdog
Don't worry, DCMS is about to publish 'yet another strategy'
25 Sep 2019 14:09 | 8
Analysis
Cloud, internet biz will take a Yellowhammer to the head in 'worst case' no-deal Brexit
UK govt releases contingency doc and everything thing is [fine/a living nightmare] (delete as appropriate)
12 Sep 2019 05:02 | 192
Science
Welsh police use of facial recog tech – it's so 'lawful', rules High Court
Claimant to appeal judgment and campaign for outright ban
04 Sep 2019 12:20 | 41
Security
UK watchdog fined firms £3m for data breaches last year – before its GDPR balls dropped
They'll never be so low again. Ask Marriott and British Airways
10 Jul 2019 15:09 | 18
Security
Shut the barn door: UK data watchdog tells MPs mass slurping by firms is a huge risk to privacy
You need to rifle through my photos why, exactly?
20 Jun 2019 12:59 | 38
Column
It's all in the wrist: Your fitness tracker could be as much about data warfare as your welfare
Tick, tick, boom?
19 Jun 2019 09:15 | 101
Security
Zuck it up: Facebook hit with triple whammy of legal probes, action in Canada, US, Ireland
Ignoring privacy laws, storing plain text passwords, slurping millions of contact details come back to bite web giant
26 Apr 2019 01:53 | 57
Legal
Hams try to re-carve the amateur radio spectrum in fight over open or encoded transmissions
Radio enthusiasts argue signals must travel in the open, for the sake of national security
05 Apr 2019 07:30 | 56
Comment
Facebook's at it again: Internal emails show it knew about Cambridge Analytica abuse 'months' before news broke
No lie, says Zuck and co, it was a separate data thing that we forgot to mention
22 Mar 2019 18:44 | 65
SaaS
Facebook blames 'server config change' for 14-hour outage. Someone run that through the universal liar translator
Is a single tweet enough when millions of people's communications are affected?
14 Mar 2019 19:33 | 182
Legal
Tech sector risks GM-crops-like crackdown if it doesn't win back trust, warns privacy watchdog
'We’re living in an age of anger where people feel disempowered, unhappy...'
13 Mar 2019 16:43 | 17
Legal
Thanks for all those data-flow warnings, UK.gov. Now let's talk about your own Brexit prep. Yep, just as we thought
Senior officials briefed on public bodies that still need data milled or stored in EU
04 Feb 2019 13:54 | 169
Analysis
Six Flags fingerprinted my son without consent, says mom. Y'know, this biometric case has teeth, say state supremes...
Theme park's attempt to shoot down lawsuit snubbed by top judges
25 Jan 2019 21:26 | 74
Security
Top GP: Medical app Your.MD's data security wasn't my remit
Prof Maureen Baker told tribunal info security and clinical safety are two separate things
17 Jan 2019 17:15 | 18
Analysis
Bipartisan Kumbaya: President Trump turns Obama's open govt data policy into law
Evidence-based policy? What a novel idea...
16 Jan 2019 02:58 | 18
Security
'Unjustifiably excessive': Not even London cops can follow law with their rubbish gang database
Gangs Matrix led to 'multiple and serious' breaches of data protection rules, says watchdog
16 Nov 2018 13:14 | 31
Comment
You've heard of 'trust but verify', right? Well, remember 'trust but protect' when mulling building a hybrid cloud
You broke it, you pay for it, one way or another
05 Nov 2018 07:54 | 3
Legal
UK and EU crawling towards post-Brexit data exchange deal – reports
Labour minister slams attitude that reaching an adequacy agreement is assured
01 Nov 2018 16:03 | 29
Security
Morrisons supermarket: We're taking payroll leak liability fight to UK Supreme Court
Brit grocer says it shouldn't be held responsible for criminal actions of worker
23 Oct 2018 10:31 | 84
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