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UK police plan national roll-out of facial-recognition phone app

UK police chiefs have announced plans to equip officers with a mobile-based facial-recognition tool that will enable them to cross reference photos of suspects against a database of millions of custody images from their phones. Known as operator initiated facial recognition (OIFR), the tool uses software supplier NEC’s NeoFace facial-recognition algorithm, and is currently being…

DORA raises the stakes for cloud use in financial services

The European Union’s (EU’s) Digital Operational Resilience Act or DORA is a key milestone for the future of the cloud in financial services. It acknowledges the vital role cloud technology plays in the delivery of modern banking services. At the same time, DORA highlights the catastrophic risk a service outage could have on not just…

Data-sharing management gap highlights cyber risk, says report

As organisational use of communications tools to share relevant data with third-party suppliers and partners spike, a lack of attention paid to security is cranking up risk levels, according to a global study of 781 IT, cyber and risk and compliance pros, 29% of which are drawn from EMEA geographies, which was conducted for Kiteworks,…

CTO interview: Pegasystems’ Don Schuerman on using AI to set business goals

In five years’ time, using generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT will be a normal part of working life, according to Don Schuerman, chief technology officer at Pegasystems, a US company that develops the software used behind the scenes by some of the world’s largest organisations to manage and automate their business processes. “I…

The Disney Plus password crackdown has begun, but no one knows how it works

After announcing and testing features meant to stop password sharing, Netflix implemented account changes to prevent the phenomenon it had previously encouraged. Netflix tracks account access and issues verification prompts when an account is used outside what it believes to be the authorized household. The password-sharing ban worked, leading to Netflix subscriber growth — in the…

The new data landscape: how will the new UK-US data bridge affect businesses?

After much deliberation, the UK-US data bridge finally took effect on 12 October. This new framework is expected to speed up processes and increase opportunities for companies that are exporting data-enabled services. Previously, organisations that wanted to do this had to have contract clauses in place to guarantee UK data protection and privacy standards are…

IR35: HMRC completes first phase of CEST upgrades with Ocelot platform migration

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has updated the platform underpinning its IR35-related Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool, claiming the change will improve how users interact with the service. The government tax collection agency confirmed to Computer Weekly in a brief statement that CEST had been “successfully moved” to a new platform on Monday…

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