5 d. ago Dozens of states sue to block the sale of 23andMe personal genetic data without customer consent

Twenty-seven states and the District of Columbia have filed a lawsuit in bankruptcy court seeking to block the sale of personal genetic data by 23andMe without customer consent

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5 d. ago Legal aid lawyers face chaos following cyber attack, says representative body

Chris Minnoch, of the Legal Aid Practitioners Group, said lawyers have called the representative body ‘in tears’ over the situation.

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6 d. ago Dale Vince’s High Court claim against Daily Mail publisher thrown out

The green energy industrialist said the media organisation misused his personal data.

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8 d. ago US supreme court rules Doge can access social security data during legal challenge

Key player in Trump’s drive to slash federal workforce keeps access to sensitive records including family court and mental health recordsThe US supreme court on Friday permitted the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge), a key player in Donald Trump’s drive to slash the federal workforce, broad access to the personal information of millions of Americans in Social Security Administration data systems while a legal challenge plays out.At the request of the justice department, the justices put on hold Maryland-based US district judge Ellen Hollander’s order that had largely blocked Doge’s access to “personally identifiable information” in data such as medical and financial records while litigation proceeds in a lower court. Hollander found that allowing Doge unfettered access likely would violate a federal privacy law. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Supreme Court allows DOGE team to access Social Security systems with data on millions of Americans

The Supreme Court is clearing the way for the Department of Government Efficiency to access Social Security systems containing personal data on millions of Americans

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2 w. ago Greater Manchester Police rapped for 'losing' two hours of CCTV footage after woman was stripped in cell

“It is clear in this case that Greater Manchester Police failed its obligation to keep the complainant’s personal data safe"

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3 w. ago Scots join class action suit against M&S after hackers stole personal data

It comes after the Sunday Mail revealed Thompsons Solicitors have launched a class action suit last week which could result in compensation payouts of several hundred pounds per customer.

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3 w. ago Privacy and hunger groups sue over USDA attempt to collect personal data of SNAP recipients

Privacy and hunger relief groups and a handful of people receiving food assistance benefits are suing the federal government over the Trump administration’s attempts to collect the personal information of millions of U.S. residents who use the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

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3 w. ago Londoners beware: How to protect yourself from phone theft and having your data stolen

A phone holds so much of the average person’s life – here’s how to protect your data if it gets stolen

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3 w. ago Hackers steal the most personal information from more than a million vulnerable Brits

The Ministry of Justice conceded that a devastating cyber attack last month was far worse than initially assessed after hackers revealed they had stolen millions of pieces of information.

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3 w. ago Legal aid cyber attack: Lawyers slam government agency for 'inadequate' response to hack

The online Legal Aid Agency portal has been disabled after the cyber attack

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3 w. ago Solicitors criticise ‘antiquated’ Legal Aid Agency IT system after cyber attack

Details including criminal records, dates of birth, national insurance numbers and payment information may have been stolen in the attack.

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3 w. ago Legal Aid hack: Names, financial details and criminal histories compromised in cyberattack, Ministry of Justice says

The cyberattackers claimed 2.1m pieces of customer data had been stolen from the Legal Aid Agency

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3 w. ago Ministry of Justice cyberattack: What data was stolen and what to do next

The cyberattackers claimed 2.1m pieces of customer data were stolen from the Legal Aid Agency

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3 w. ago Legal Aid hack: Names, financial details and criminal histories compromised in cyber attack, Ministry of Justice says

The cyberattackers claimed 2.1m pieces of customer data had been stolen from the Legal Aid Agency

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3 w. ago Hackers steal 'significant amount of personal data' from Ministry of Justice in brazen cyber

The personal data of people who applied to the Legal Aid Agency since 2010, including criminal records, was accessed and downloaded in a cyber attack in April this year, the MoJ has said.

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3 w. ago The AI Con by Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna review – debunking myths of the AI revolution

Will new technology help to make the world a better place, or is AI just another tech bubble that will benefit the few?At the beginning of this year, Keir Starmer announced an “AI opportunities action plan”, which promises to mainline AI “into the veins of this enterprising nation”. The implication that AI is a class-A injectable substance, liable to render the user stupefied and addicted, was presumably unintentional. But then what on earth did they mean about AI’s potential, and did they have any good reason to believe it?Not according to the authors of this book, who are refreshingly sarcastic about what they think is just another tech bubble. What is sold to us as AI, they announce, is just “a bill of goods”: “A few major well-placed players are poised to accumulate significant wealth by extracting value from other people’s creative work, personal data, or labor, and replacing quality services with artificial facsimiles.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Huge cyber attack targets Legal Aid as names and personal details at risk

The culprits claim more than two million pieces of data were accessed

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3 w. ago Cyber attack on Legal Aid Agency exposed ‘significant amount’ of applicant data

The group that carried out the attack has claimed it accessed 2.1 million pieces of data but the Ministry of Justice has not verified that figure.

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3 w. ago Legal Aid data breach: Cyber attackers access 'significant amount' of personal data

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said a 'significant amount of personal data' had been stolen in the breach - potentially including home addresses, dates of birth and criminal records

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