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Investigative journalist seeks damages from police over unlawful phone surveillance

Published in Investigative journalist seeks damages from police over unlawful phone surveillance on 25.09.2026

Northern Ireland journalist subject to unlawful communications surveillance seeks damages from police in Northern Ireland in high court claim for data protection breaches and harassment

Expecting cyber attack, Kiteworks tells users to turn off servers

Published in Investigative journalist seeks damages from police over unlawful phone surveillance on 25.09.2026

An as-yet undisclosed zero-day vulnerability has prompted managed file transfer provider Kiteworks to tell users to preemptively switch off their servers.

How Meta plans to deliver petabit connectivity between US and France

Published in Investigative journalist seeks damages from police over unlawful phone surveillance on 25.09.2026

Meta is working with NEC, Sumitomo Electric Industries and Orange to deliver petabit transoceanic cabling capacity

Digital identity – moving forward with ambition

Published in Investigative journalist seeks damages from police over unlawful phone surveillance on 25.09.2026

Despite the UK government's U-turn on a digital identity scheme, the uses and opportunities for digital ID are gathering pace

Met Police finally get full funding for national Post Office investigation

Published in Investigative journalist seeks damages from police over unlawful phone surveillance on 25.09.2026

The national police investigation into the Post Office IT scandal has now received the full funding it requires

French local authorities to replace WhatsApp with ‘sovereign’ encrypted messaging

Published in Investigative journalist seeks damages from police over unlawful phone surveillance on 25.09.2026

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

Dreamforce 2026: A question of trust

Published in Investigative journalist seeks damages from police over unlawful phone surveillance on 25.09.2026

Salesforce’s Dreamforce 2026 event tried to focus on trust in AI development, amid current fears about autonomous AI risks. Is AI just the new cloud?

Consumers want strong independent oversight of banking AI

Published in Investigative journalist seeks damages from police over unlawful phone surveillance on 25.09.2026

Despite strong security foundations, customers using AI want independent eyes to watch over banks