• Lords panel seeks ‘Digital Authority’ to tighten tech regulation

  The House of Lords Committee on Communications has sought the creation of a digital super-regulator...
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• Cifas urges firms to vet applicants, employees to tackle data breach

  Cifas, a fraud prevention service in the UK, has urged companies to strengthen their internal...
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• Ethics group BFEG to oversee Home Office use of large data sets

  Advisory non-departmental public body, Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group (BFEG), will look into ethical issues...
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• ICO Elizabeth Denham and London chief digital officer Theo Blackwell gain New Year honours

  Information commissioner Elizabeth Denham and London’s chief digital officer Theo Blackwell take pride of place among public sector IT and…
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• Data privacy and compliance firm Egress secures $40m private equity backing

  Data privacy and security specialist Egress has announced new financial backing. The company, which helps public sector organisations protect unstructured…
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• DCMS beats drum for May’s Brexit deal “to secure certainty for UK’s digital sector”

  As Theresa May struggles to convince the country – and critically, MPs – of the merits of her Brexit deal,…
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• ODI to set up data trust pilots to ‘increase access to data while retaining trust’

  The Open Data Institute (ODI) is to set up the UK’s first ‘data trust’ pilots working with the government’s Office…
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• Lack of AI strategy to address business model disruption may hold back UK companies, despite country’s AI leadership prospects, report finds

  Microsoft has launched its ‘Maximising the AI Opportunity’ report, discussing the UK’s development and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The report concludes that…
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• ICO bares teeth and slaps maximum £500,000 fine on Facebook for failing to protect users’ personal information

  Just six days after it hired Nick Clegg as its head of global affairs, Facebook is facing a further risk…
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• Europe’s Digital Agenda (15-19 October)

  Welcome to this edition of Europe’s Digital Agenda. In this space I uncover and detail last week’s digital developments from…
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