3 h. 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 d. 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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4 d. 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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4 d. 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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4 d. 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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4 d. 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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4 d. ago Cyber attack on Legal Aid Agency accessed ‘significant amount of personal data’

A ‘significant amount of personal data’ was accessed and downloaded in the cyber attack

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4 d. ago Legal aid cyber attack: 'Significant amount of personal data' stolen in latest major hack to hit UK

A “significant amount of personal data” of people who applied online to the Legal Aid Agency since 2010, including criminal records, was accessed and downloaded in a cyber attack in April this year, the Ministry of Justice said on Monday.

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7 d. ago Marks & Spencer to reveal how much cyber attack cost retailer

Hackers successfully accessed customer personal data during the cyber attack

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9 d. ago PC gamers urged to change Steam password following breach of 89 million users' data

Steam, the most popular marketplace for PC games, has reportedly seen a major breach via another company this week and millions of users' personal data could be at risk on the dark web

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9 d. ago M&S customers warned as type of personal information stolen in cyber attack explained

M&S has been grappling with the fallout from a highly damaging cyber attack since Easter weekend and has now revealed that personal customer data had also been stolen by the hackers

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1 week ago Cyber experts issue urgent advice to M&S customers after data breach

The retailer confirmed some personal data had been stolen in a cyber attack on the firm

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1 week ago Cyber attacks: What to do if you fear your personal information has been stolen

M&S has revealed that customer personal data has been taken by hackers

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1 week ago Marks & Spencer reveals customer data taken by hackers after cyber attack

The retail giant said the personal data accessed does not include payment or card details, or account passwords.

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1 week ago Illinois governor is first in US to block federal access to personal data on autism

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed an executive order protecting the privacy of autism-related health data

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2 w. ago Urgent warning to take cyber attack threat 'very seriously' as Co

Cybersecurity experts warned retailers as criminals boasted of snatching the personal data of 20 million Co-op customers who signed up to the supermarket chain's membership card scheme

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3 w. ago Move fast and destroy things: 100 chaotic days of Elon Musk in the White House

From mass firings to unprecedented influence, Musk has left little of the federal government untouched in Doge roleOne hundred days after Elon Musk entered the White House as Donald Trump’s senior adviser and the de facto leader of the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge), the Tesla CEO has left little of the federal government unscathed. Over the course of just a few months, he has gutted agencies and public services that took decades to build while accumulating immense political power.Musk’s role in the Trump administration is without modern precedent. Never before has the world’s richest person been deputized by the US president to cull the very agencies that oversee his businesses. Musk’s attempts to radically dismantle government bureaus have won him sprawling influence. His team has embedded its members in key roles across federal agencies, gained access to personal data on millions of Americans and fired tens of thousands of workers. SpaceX, where he is CEO,...

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3 w. ago Appellate court won't lift restrictions on DOGE access to Social Security information

A federal appeals court says it won’t lift restrictions on the access that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has to Social Security systems containing personal data on millions of Americans

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3 w. ago It’s time for the US to guarantee healthcare to all | Bernie Sanders

We spend almost twice as much per capita on healthcare as any other country on Earth. It’s time to change thatI have held public meetings all over Vermont and in many parts of the country. At these gatherings I almost always ask a very simple question: is our healthcare system broken? And the answer I always receive is: Yes! The American healthcare system is broken. It is outrageously expensive. It is horrifically cruel.Today, we spend almost twice as much per capita on healthcare as any other country on Earth. According to the most recent data, the United States spends $14,570 per person on healthcare compared with just $5,640 in Japan, $6,023 in the United Kingdom, $6,931 in Australia, $7,013 in Canada and $7,136 in France. And yet, despite our huge expenditures, we remain the only major country on Earth not to guarantee healthcare to all people as a human right.Bernie Sanders is a US senator and a ranking member of the health, education, labor and pensions committee. He represent...

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3 w. ago Post Office chiefs to fork out thousands in extra compo to postmasters over personal data leak

Lawyers confirmed they had won settlements for around eight Scottish postmasters and many more across the UK who were affected by a major data breach amid the Horizon scandal.

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