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IR35 private sector reforms: Zurich Insurance under fire over contractor blanket ban Zurich Insurance is the latest high-profile financial services company to declare contractors can only continue to engage with it via umbrella setups from April 2021, ahead of the IR35 rules coming into force Share this item with your network: By Published: 01 Feb 2021 11:05 Zurich Insurance’s decision to blanket-ban the use of limited company contractors in response to the incoming IR35 private sector r...

Biometrics ethics group addresses public-private use of facial recognition Home Office’s Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group releases briefing note on the use of live facial recognition in public–private collaborations following a year-long investigation Share this item with your network: By Published: 29 Jan 2021 16:22 A publicly accessible record on the collaborative uses of live facial recognition (LFR) should be created to reduce the secrecy around public-private partnerships, sa...

Hunting and anti-hunting groups locked in tit-for-tat row over data gathering The leaking of internal documents has prompted a row between pro- and anti-hunting groups about the legality of the other’s data collection practices Share this item with your network: By Published: 29 Jan 2021 17:30 Longstanding disagreements between hunting groups and anti-hunting activists have broken out into allegations of illegal data gathering from both sides. Activists claim that two leaked internal doc...

Revealed: Brits who fuelled ‘vicious’ conspiracy theory by Trump supporters Trump supporters have apologised and paid millions in damages to the family of murdered Democratic Party staffer Seth Rich for promoting false allegations that Rich – not Russian agents – stole emails from the Democratic National Committee Share this item with your network: By Published: 29 Jan 2021 16:00 Reporting by Computer Weekly was “vitally important” in ending three years of “damaging falsehood...

JP Morgan Chase hires for UK digital bank launch US banking giant hires in the UK in preparation for digital consumer bank launch Share this item with your network: By Published: 28 Jan 2021 12:45 US bank JP Morgan Chase has recruited 400 staff in the UK to work for its UK digital bank, which will launch in the coming months. The digital UK bank, which will be based in Canary Wharf in London, will offer consumer banking products including current accounts. JP Morgan Chase, headquartered in...

HMRC IT PAC rebuke, neurodiversity in focus – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast By Related Podcasts Listen to this podcast In this episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna discuss the recent Public Accounts Committee report into HMRC IT, neurodiversity, and Gaurav Dhillon as a Silicon Valley CEO In this episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna disc...

After a push at the start, Mencap’s automation journey is gathering pace UK charity was helped out by a bank at the start of an automation investigation that is now a project sweeping across the organisation Share this item with your network: By Published: 27 Jan 2021 10:30 Early support from a bank enabled Mencap to take advantage of a robotic process automation (RPA) strategy, and the UK learning disability charity has not looked back since. The company, through a dedicated RPA team, h...

Inside Grab’s DevOps practices A senior software engineer at Grab offers a peek into the DevOps practices at one of Southeast Asia’s technology unicorns Share this item with your network: By Published: 26 Jan 2021 2:31 For the most part, DevOps is about bringing development and operations teams together to speed up application delivery to keep pace with the needs of a business. At Grab, one of Southeast Asia’s technology unicorns, DevOps responsibilities are shared across the whole o...

The UK government’s controversial ‘immigration exemption’ from the Data Protection Act 2018 faces a further legal challenge from human rights groups. The case is set to be heard in the Court of Appeal on 23 February 2021. An initial legal challenge was launched in the summer of 2019.   According to a report published in Computer Weekly, a lawsuit has been filed on the grounds that ‘everyone, regardless of their nationality or residence, should have their fundamental rights and freedoms...

Computer Weekly – 26 January 2021: Salad as a service – how tech could revolutionise farming Computer Weekly – 26 January 2021: Salad as a service – how tech could revolutionise farming In this week’s Computer Weekly, we find out how new technologies are supporting the rise of vertical farming, and could revolutionise food supply chains. We examine one of the biggest trends in the cloud – serverless computing. And Brexit has not yet ended the debate about UK-EU dat...