🤢 ‘A former soldier has been found guilty of raping the daughter of BBC commentator John Hunt before he murdered her alongside her mother and sister after watching videos by the misogynist influencer Andrew #Tate. ‘After the verdict was announced four British women who are taking High Court action against Tate, who they accuse of rape and coercive control, called on social media companies to immediately ban him from their platforms.’ https://www.thetimes.com/article/8617a26b-7109-471f-bc2d-95a996986cbd?shareToken=c71ec5a77c940adb99f5387ff38c5f83

The 🇬🇧 National Cyber Security Centre is generally excellent. But it seems that between 23 and 27 Feb, it took down its security advice for law firms (a key attack point given their access to sensitive client documents) which (rightly) highlighted Apple’s Advanced Data Protection #ADP… Because the Home Office is trying to get a global backdoor, and Apple has now withdrawn the service from the 🇬🇧? 😳

Cyber security tips for barristers, solicitors and legal professionals

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So, 🇬🇧 businesses to be inundated with hallucinated CVs from benefit recipients understandably meeting punitive targets mainly intended to reduce numbers of benefit claimants 🧐 That will do wonders for productivity 🤖 ‘Ministers hope to introduce a ­“self-serve” #AI platform that can ­prepare and review CVs, write cover letters and help prepare for job interviews.’ https://www.thetimes.com/article/b52c9651-4cef-469f-8183-4ea5f51f406d?shareToken=2d56390349c8be8cd980f4b877d18008

“outright fascism in Europe was never quite so well funded and promoted as it is now, since the US government and the social media platforms that do its bidding decided backing outright fascism was a good way to smash the EU.” 🫣

the Guardian

Trump’s bullshit blitz has Europe on its knees | Stewart Lee

For the US president’s cheerleaders, the whitewashing of the deaths of ten of thousands of Ukrainians is a small price to pay for sticking it to ...

😵 “Mandatory #OpenBanking would give [officials) constant access to the bank statements of welfare recipients, revealing deeply private information” https://www.thetimes.com/article/13ea518d-73dc-4898-a1b1-ef22cc3be29e?shareToken=1c6e4651a9d8ff68e1d5d173339aa201

I can see a resounding judgment coming from the EU Court of Justice that countries without the effective rule of law (eg China, Russia, and soon the USA?) by definition cannot provide adequate protection to Europeans’ personal data 💣 From: @npub1xz0t...st3e

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Paul Nemitz (@PaulNemitz@eupolicy.social)

A dangerous, damaging civil war at the Justice Department. Good bye #RuleofLaw in America ? Judges and Government emplyees resist actions not inte...

Hot off the press! My new analysis: #Security, #privacy and the @European Commission’s proposed #iOS interoperability requirements for connected devices under the Digital Markets Act #DMA

Security, privacy and the European Commission’s proposed iOS interoperability requirements for connected devices under the Digital Markets Act

The EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), passed in September 2022, contains a range of measures to improve fairness and competition in the digital sec...

The UK Home Office (interior ministry) appears to have forgotten entirely about the "independent" Technical Advisory Board #TAB whose advice it legally must take when #Apple appeals its secret order ("Technical Capability Notice” leaked to the Washington Post) to compromise #iPhone/ #ADP security worldwide to enable future surveillance by the UK 🤡🤡

ComputerWeekly.com

Apple: British techies to advise on ‘devastating’ UK global crypto power grab | Computer Weekly

A hitherto unknown British organisation – which even the government may have forgotten about – is about to be drawn into a global techn...

🇬🇧 #eVisa system almost comically bad 😱 (does not surprise me in the slightest after the Home Office took nearly a decade to get my passports to work in 🇬🇧 border e-gates) >> “Lisa Uttley, a partner at the law firm Gherson LLP, said that about a third of her clients have encountered issues either with a delay to their account going live or it containing incorrect data.” https://www.thetimes.com/article/914249fd-df14-49f7-8f64-2208f49378c0?shareToken=93bf301a1814fe15a277cb4233cd1563

‘Yakoob has paid “substantial” damages and costs for his publication of the video, removed the posts and agreed not to post them again. It is thought to be the first case of a political “#deepfake” — images or video edited or generated using #AI — being subject to a legal settlement in the UK.’

‘I doorknocked for Labour then racist deepfake ruined my life’

Cheryl Bennett thought she was doing a friend a favour when she agreed to post party leaflets around Dudley. Instead, it nearly got her arrested