Lords shoplifting inquiry calls for facial recognition laws
Lords have expressed “serious concerns” over the use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology by retailers, and are calling for new laws to ensure its…
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Post Office was reluctant to cut costs despite 143 central staff earning more than £100k
Former minister tells public inquiry that convincing the Post Office CEO to cut central costs was like “drawing teeth”, despite many executives and managers earning…
Starmer announces tech-enabled crackdown on people smuggling
UK prime minister Keir Starmer has committed an extra £75m to the recently established Border Security Command (BSC) to fund its acquisition and use of…
Botched Post Office website upgrade caused serious data breach
A human error during a website upgrade caused the serious Post Office data breach earlier this year, which exposed personal details of hundreds of former…
Gartner Symposium: IT leaders urged to do reps like Arnie
Doing reps, reps and more reps is the key to success, according to the Terminator and former governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Although he was…
User-centric security should be core to cloud IAM practice
Cyber attacks, phishing, and ransomware incidents are predominantly user-facilitated threats; their success is reliant on a human interaction. Relying solely on the next generation of…
Data bill aims to boost police and NHS productivity
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Nakivo takes aims at VMware refugees tempted by Proxmox
Backup software vendor Nakivo has added Microsoft 365 cloud-to-cloud backup, support for backups of Proxmox virtualisation environments, and cloud as a target for NAS backups…
Gartner Symposium: Why ServiceNow wants to be seen as the AI platform for business transformation
ServiceNow and Rimini Street have expanded their partnership to enable organisations to use older enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems as a starting point for enterprise…
Government’s £600,000 offer to Horizon scandal victims was ‘political’
The Post Office was not consulted on the government’s decision to offer £600,000 to wrongly convicted subpostmasters – a move described by the company’s head…
Gartner: Avoid AI project money pit
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is past its peak in the Gartner hype cycle but has not met expectations, analysts warned at the company’s European conference…
TechUK calls for government support to help UK datacentre market reach growth potential
The datacentre sector could become one of the fastest-growing industries in the UK, but doing so will require greater collaboration between industry and decision-makers at…