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The UK’s data protection watchdog says police will likely allow the use of cloud services that can send sensitive law enforcement data overseas.

The discovery of a dataset comprising 26 billion stolen records may prove to be record-breaking in both its size and the danger it poses to ordinary people

In this week’s Computer Weekly, AI-generated disinformation and misinformation will be the top risks for businesses, governments and the public over the next two years, according to the World Economic Forum. Intel’s CTO discusses the chip maker’s plans for the European market. And we examine the dearth of digital skills among elected officials. Read the issue now.

The United Nations general secretary has blasted technology companies and governments for pursuing their own narrow interests in artificial intelligence without any consideration of the common good, as part of wider call to reform global governance

With time to kill and decades ahead of them, pensioners are well placed to sway public debate

Tens of thousands of IT contractors have been saddled with life-changing tax bills as a result of a controversial, retroactive government policy – and the fall-out from its introduction has been likened to the Post Office IT scandal.

Twenty EU tech companies have written to ministers across the European Union urging them not to support a proposed regulation on child sexual abuse that could undermine the security of internet services that rely on end-to-end encryption. The companies, which include encrypted email and messaging providers, warn that the proposals by the EU Commission would “negatively impact children’s privacy and security” and could have “dramatic unforeseen consequences” for cybe...

Labour peer uses urgent question to uncover who, if anyone, in government was aware of the Post Office’s attempts to remove judge as it became clear it was losing.

In this weeks Computer Weekly, AI-generated disinformation and misinformation will be the top risks for businesses, governments and the public over the next two years, according to the WEF. Intels CTO discusses the chip makers plans for the European market. And we examine the dearth of digital skills among elected officials. Read the issue now.

The Post Office scandal goes back to procurement blunders perpetrated in the 1960s. We’re still making the same mistakes