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ICO reprimands Essex school for illegal facial recognition use

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The UK’s data regulator has reprimanded a secondary school in Essex for illegally deploying facial-recognition technology to take cashless canteen payments from students. Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has the power to serve formal reprimands, as well as fines and other enforcement notices, when organisations break the…

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Mimecast to buy insider threat specialist Code42

3 minutes of reading / AI, API, cloud-native, compliance, GDPR, HIPAA, Lyft, Okta, risk management, Tech / By / Leave a Comment

Human-centred risk management experts Mimecast and Code42 are to come together as a single business in an acquisition that builds on a previously established tech partnership, with Mimecast set to add Code42’s product suite into its platform to enhance its insider threat detection and response capabilities. Mimecast, which bills itself as a provider of “AI-powered,…

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Hybrid multicloud storage: Pros, cons and key workloads

5 minutes of reading / Accenture, AWS, Azure, Cloud, compliance, data analytics, Dell, Hitachi, HP, hybrid cloud, IBM, Kubernetes, multicloud, Oracle, Oracle Cloud, Tech / By / Leave a Comment

Hybrid multicloud storage is intended to create the best of all worlds. By mixing on-premise technology with multiple public cloud resources, enterprises hope to optimise the attributes of each with regard to pricing, capacity, performance, features, security and resilience. The challenge is to create a coherent storage architecture out of multiple technologies rather than a…

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Chrome cookies reprieved amid Google Privacy Sandbox changes

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Google has dramatically changed course on its proposals to deprecate third-party cookies in its Chrome web browser in favour of a “new experience” that it claims will enable people to make an “informed choice” about their web privacy. The changes, which mirror those made already in the Firefox and Safari browsers, would have been due…

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Derby City Council eyes £12.25m annual savings with AI and chatbot deployments

5 minutes of reading / AI, automation, chatbot, compliance, digital transformation, machine learning, Microsoft, Tech / By / Leave a Comment

Derby City Council aims to save almost £12.5m a year in costs by rolling out artificial intelligence (AI) tools to its staff. The council, which covers the East Midlands city of some 264,000 people, has identified 261 tasks where officials believe AI can make improvements. Within that, the council is focusing on 54 areas where…

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The Corsair RM750e ATX 3.1 Review: Simple And Effective

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As mainstream power supplies continue to make their subtle shift to the ATX 3.1 standard, the pace of change is picking up. Already most vendors offer at least one ATX 3.1 unit in their lineups, and thanks to the relatively small set of changes that come with the revised standard, PSU vendors have largely been…

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Legal, tax and audit professionals look forward to AI efficiency promise

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The second edition of Thomson Reuters’ Future of professionals report has found that within five years, artificial intelligence (AI) could take over 600 hours of work a professional normally does in their day-to-day job annually. The 2024 report, based on an annual survey of more than 2,200 professionals working across legal, tax, and risk and compliance…

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Cloud repatriation: What it is and when you can benefit

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The year-on-year (YoY) growth of cloud storage and computing suggests an unstoppable trend of customers that have moved away from owning and running their own datacentres, compute, storage and networking hardware. But although the cloud continues to grow – accounting for as much as 50% of the world’s IT infrastructure – the trend no longer…

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Schools hit with cost hike as free Microsoft licences end

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Free Microsoft Office licences negotiated by the Scottish government for school pupils are set to end at the start of August, according to the Scottish Herald. The newspaper reported that the free A1 Plus licence will no longer be available to students. Glow, Scotland’s digital environment to support learning, has posted a notice stating that Microsoft…

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AT&T loses ‘nearly all’ phone records in Snowflake breach

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AT&T, one of the largest and oldest telecoms and mobile network operators in the United States, has lost control of the phone records of virtually all of its customers relating to a six-month period in 2022, amid a still-expanding series of breaches affecting customers of cloud data specialist Snowflake. In a filing with the Securities…

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