The EU is set to declare war on encryption with plans to allow law enforcement officials “targeted lawful access” to protected communications, according to a European Commission interna | Continue reading
The chair of an inquiry into the government’s £400m OneWeb deal has accused the business secretary Alok Sharma of interfering in his committee’s work. Darren Jones, the Labour MP who ch | Continue reading
The European Commission president Urusula von der Leyen has revealed that new legislation governing the use of AI will not now be introduced until next year. In a state of the union address in Brus | Continue reading
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched an extraordinary attack on the US government after defence officials announced they would not row back on their decision to award Microsoft a controversial $1 | Continue reading
SoftBank is in advanced talks with US chip company Nvidia to sell Arm – with a price in the region of £32bn reportedly being thrown around. But Nvidia’s purchase of the Cambridge-based chip d | Continue reading
Just before the bank holiday weekend, Parliament’s Digital Services Cyber Security team warned civil servants about an apparent cyber threat posed by environmental activist group Extinction Rebelli | Continue reading
North Korean hackers have revived an audacious scam to steal billions of dollars from banks in more than three dozen countries, US cyber analysts have revealed. New details of the global ATM cash-o | Continue reading
A perfect storm of factors has pushed BT into a vulnerable position – and the vultures of private equity are circling. This month, the company’s shares sunk to their lowest in more than a dec | Continue reading
Co-founder and ex-president of Arm Holdings Tudor Brown says that SoftBank’s projected sale of the chip company to Nvidia is the result of a bungled business strategy that saw the fund throw | Continue reading
A-level students across the country have been left with a bitter taste in their mouths after receiving a grade lower than the one predicted for them by their teachers. Results released on Thursday | Continue reading
TikTok has threatened to take the Trump administration to court after it was targeted by an executive order that will prevent it from doing business with US firms. In a strongly worded statement is | Continue reading
The Home Office is set to shelve an allegedly racist visa algorithm following a landmark legal challenge by campaigners. The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) and tech justice orga | Continue reading
Microsoft’s bid to buy a significant part of TikTok’s international operations includes the app’s presence in every Five Eyes nation other than the UK, it has emerged. The US tech | Continue reading
Countries in Europe and around the world are split on their attitudes to including Chinese firm Huawei in their 5G mobile networks, according to an exclusive new global analysis by NS Tech. We traw | Continue reading
The long-awaited Russia report – hyped to contain explosive evidence of Russian meddling in the UK’s affairs – finally dropped on Tuesday to somewhat disappointing effect. Instead of incendia | Continue reading
The government has been forced to concede that England’s “world-beating” Test and Trace programme has been operating unlawfully since it launched in May, as the result of a legal | Continue reading
NSO Group’s attempt to get WhatsApp’s lawsuit thrown out has failed, and the case – which alleges the spyware company hacked 1,400 of the messaging service’s users – can proceed t | Continue reading
The British chipmaker Graphcore has won praise from analysts after releasing the second generation of its intelligence processing unit (IPU) chip, the GC200, which it claims is the most “comp | Continue reading
British security officials have joined forces with their American and Canadian counterparts to connect a series of cyber attacks on coronavirus vaccinologists to the Russian government. According t | Continue reading
Peter Thiel’s controversial data analytics firm Palantir has secured a four-month extension for its work on NHS England’s Covid-19 data store. Palantir’s initial contract to suppl | Continue reading
Amnesty International’s bid to block spyware company NSO Group’s international export licence has been shut down in a Tel Aviv court, apparently due to a lack of evidence. The case argu | Continue reading
President Trump has laid claim to a 2018 cyber attack on Russia’s Internet Research Agency (IRA) – framing it as evidence that he’s responded to Russia’s provocations in an interv | Continue reading
In January, Boris Johnson finally unveiled the government’s long-awaited policy position on Huawei. The decision essentially mirrored the approach Theresa May had intended to propose last year befo | Continue reading
Members of the House of Lords are urging the passing of legislation that will implement new rules for social media companies, and threaten fat fines in the case of inaction on disinformation. A Hou | Continue reading
The digital secretary Oliver Dowden has unveiled plans to launch a new digital strategy positioning the tech sector at the heart of the UK’s economic recovery following the coronavirus crisis | Continue reading
The German economy minister Peter Altmaier has described plans for a new pan-European cloud computing infrastructure as the EU’s most “important digital aspiration in a generation” | Continue reading
Newly-released documents have cast doubt on claims that the NHS’s Covid-19 track and trace app will be ready to launch nationally by the end of the month. Earlier this week the business minis | Continue reading
The UK government finally gave into demands to release controversial NHS data-sharing deals – which up to this point had been kept secret – after tech justice organisation Foxglove and openDemocrac | Continue reading
The London AI company Faculty has secured a new contract to analyse a range of data in order to provide a real-time picture of how the coronavirus crisis is affecting communities across the UK. As | Continue reading
Zoom is planning to offer paying users an encrypted version of its video conferencing platform as it seeks to reassure customers that its services can be used to securely host sensitive discussions | Continue reading
The NHS privacy notice for the Covid-19 test and trace programme says that data it gathers – including names, addresses, dates of birth and symptoms of individuals and those they have been in conta | Continue reading
Join NS Tech and some of the UK’s leading government tech experts on 3 June for a live discussion on how technology can be deployed responsibly to aid the response to the crisis. Register her | Continue reading
The UK government struck a deal with the video conferencing company Zoom just weeks before security officials warned that its platform should not be used for sensitive communications. The contract, | Continue reading
The British government is facing mounting pressure to disclose the terms of data sharing agreements between NHS England and Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Peter Thiel’s Palantir and the London AI | Continue reading
The concerns surrounding the UK’s “wobbly”, technologically quirky and legally dubious coronavirus contact-tracing app are manifold. But one that comes up repeatedly is that of privacy, and the cre | Continue reading
In a move designed to create the impression of radical transparency, NHSX finally released the source code for the UK’s Covid-19 tracing app last week. However, among experts, the reception w | Continue reading
The NHSX coronavirus contact tracing app is being rolled out on the Isle of Wight this week, but major question marks still hang over the app. Matthew Gould, CEO of NHSX, told parliament today that | Continue reading
An ambitious project to forecast demand on NHS services at both a local and national level is likely to outlive the coronavirus pandemic, according to two sources close to the project. The initiati | Continue reading
Palantir has committed 45 engineers to a government data project designed to help the NHS manage a potential surge in demand during the coronavirus outbreak, NS Tech can reveal. The pledge is likel | Continue reading
WhatsApp’s most recent court filing in its lawsuit against cyber surveillance company NSO Group claims to connect IP addresses used by the firm to servers in the US, as part of an attempt to quash | Continue reading
The UK government is set to take a stake in hundreds of high-growth British startups after launching a plan to save the sector from the brink of financial collapse. Following weeks of negotiations | Continue reading
The European Commission has called for a pan-European approach to contact tracing apps that track the spread of coronavirus across borders. But what form such technology could take has stoked inten | Continue reading
Almost six months after it was served with a lawsuit by WhatsApp, the controversial Israeli spyware company NSO Group took its first substantive action in relation to the court case last week – it | Continue reading
Like mobile phones, 3G and 4G before it, 5G has become a nexus of paranoid, brain-frying health scare delusions. Since at least 2018, fanciful claims have circulated about the mobile technology cau | Continue reading
Israel is kicking its coronavirus response up a gear with prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement that the government plans to deploy anti-terrorism tracking technology in order to curtail | Continue reading
The European Union’s committee of data protection regulators has clarified that national governments will need to lay down new laws if they wish to use smartphone data to track the spread of | Continue reading
In late February, the European Commission released its long-awaited white paper on artificial intelligence (AI). The paper is seen as the world’s first pan-national attempt to regulate AI and forms | Continue reading
Around two dozen of the UK’s most senior civil servants flew to China last year to meet with executives of some of the country’s largest technology firms, NS Tech can reveal. The meetin | Continue reading