An investigative journalist has filed a high court claim against the Police Service of Northern Ireland after police unlawfully obtained communications data in a covert attempt to identify a confident...

French local authorities to deploy a ‘sovereign’ end-to-end encrypted messaging service in a move away from US big tech.

National Centre for Information Defence will disrupt information warfare from hostile states, UK prime minister Andy Burnham has announced.

The government’s policy on neither confirm nor denying whether it has ordered Apple to provide ‘backdoor’ access to encrypted messages and data stored on Apple’s iCloud is “farcical”, a court heard to...

British lawmakers are calling for a new law and a statutory oversight body to address the “serious threats” posed by AI systems to people’s human rights. Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights s...

US lawmakers are urging a UK court to lift the secrecy around UK government moves to require Apple to create a “back door” into its end-to-end encrypted data storage, ahead of a court hearing next wee...

US lawmakers are urging a UK court to lift the secrecy around UK government moves to require Apple to create a “back door” into its end-to-end encrypted data storage, ahead of a court hearing next wee...

A human rights activist is bringing a legal case against Europe’s data protection watchdog for failing to protect her rights after her personal data was “unlawfully” stored and processed by the Europe...

Computer Weekly reveals for the first time how French cyber spies hacked EncroChat phones used by organised crime groups.

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Computer Weekly reveals for the first time how French cyber spies hacked EncroChat phones used by organised crime groups.

From Delhi to Jaipur, India is rolling out facial recognition technology to monitor millions of its citizens. Investigate Europe has found that behind much of the software is Spanish company Herta Sec...

Hackers will use AI-enabled cyber capabilities to exploit known vulnerabilities in legacy technology at scale by 2028, says National Cyber Security Centre CEO Richard Horne.

MPs are calling on the government to reduce the UK’s dependency on big technology companies amid concerns that the UK is over-reliant on overseas suppliers, posing national security and economic risks...

Under pressure to deliver in the fight against serious cross-border crime, Europol built and operated a shadow data analysis platform containing large volumes of sensitive information, which operated ...

Under pressure to deliver in the fight against serious cross-border crime, Europol built and operated a shadow data analysis platform containing large volumes of sensitive information, which operated ...

The UK’s tax and customs authority has been quietly amassing an arsenal of surveillance technology, signing contracts with companies that supply mobile phone tracking equipment and for downloading the...

The Police Service of Northern Ireland created a detailed “intelligence profile” of a former BBC journalist containing personal information about him and his family, a court heard today.

A coroner’s inquest into missing school boy, Noah Donohoe, has confirmed that the PSNI had technical issues with its ControlWorks software used to record information reported to the police call handle...

A Spanish court has raised questions about the validity and reliability of intercepted phone data, acquitting multiple defendants of drug trafficking charges in a case that relied solely on intercepte...

A Spanish court has raised questions about the validity and reliability of intercepted phone data, acquitting multiple defendants of drug trafficking charges in a case that relied solely on intercepte...

Northern Ireland’s Policing Board has asked the Police Service of Northern Ireland for clarification after it emerged the PSNI has not reported IT issues that affected its ability to record reports fr...

The UK and Europe are ramping up opposition to encryption and stepping up surveillance of private communications. Here is what to expect this year.

The UK and Europe are ramping up opposition to encryption and stepping up surveillance of private communications. Here is what to expect this year.

A transatlantic row between the UK and the Trump administration erupted after the UK attempted to force Apple to break its advanced encryption. That was just one of a series of stories reporting on th...

Computer Weekly speaks to Kate Moussouris, security entrepreneur and bug bounty pioneer, about the life of security researchers, bug bounties and the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution.

The EU’s law enforcement agency has been quietly amassing data to feed an ambitious but secretive artificial intelligence development programme that could have far-reaching privacy implications for pe...

The EU’s law enforcement agency has been quietly amassing data to feed an ambitious but secretive artificial intelligence development programme that could have far-reaching privacy implications for pe...

An issue with Police Service of Northern Ireland’s (PSNI) ControlWorks software, used to record information reported by the public, led to a delay in urgent information being passed to investigators.

Apple has agreed with the Home Office to drop its legal claim against a government order requiring it to provide intelligence and law enforcement with the capability to access encrypted data of Apple ...

Apple has agreed with the Home Office to drop its legal claim against a government order requiring it to provide intelligence and law enforcement with the capability to access encrypted data of Apple ...

A London court orders police to disclose reasons for seizing the phone of a UK lawyer that represented Hamas but refused an injunction to prevent police reviewing the phone until after judicial review

The PSNI has commissioned a senior lawyer to review whether there was any misconduct by police officers following an independent review that found police unlawfully monitored journalists’ phone data, ...

The French supreme court has turned to the European Court of Justice to decide whether EU citizens have the right to challenge the legality of evidence obtained by French law enforcement by hacking th...

A lawyer representing Hamas in a legal case in the UK is challenging the legality of the seizure of his mobile phone after he was stopped and questioned by police. Welsh police stopped Fahad Ansari’s ...

The Security Service MI5 has admitted unlawfully spying on the phone of former BBC investigative journalist Vincent Kearney. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal heard today that the security service has...

Law enforcement and police experts are meeting on Friday to decide on proposals to require technology companies, such as Signal and WhatsApp, to scan encrypted messages for possible child abuse images...

Microsoft has been accused of abusing its market position by stifling the sale of second-hand copies of its Windows operating system and Office software, in a long-running battle over the lawfulness o...

Northern Ireland police failed to disclose two covert surveillance operations against journalists to the UK’s independent surveillance watchdog in breach of their statutory obligations. The Police Ser...

EU General Court upholds EU-US Data Privacy Framework, bringing certainty to businesses that exchange data with the US – for now. An appeal may be in the offing.

The Home Office sought access to data and messages stored by Apple users on its cloud storage in the UK and overseas by demanding a ‘back door’ to Apple’s iCloud service, a court document has revealed...

US and UK end diplomatic row over UK encryption ‘back door’ order against Apple, but it remains unclear whether Apple will restore advance encryption services to UK users.