The UK’s competition watchdog has provisionally found that a proposed merger between two of the biggest players in the hearing implant sector could mean a worse deal for patients and higher costs for the NHS.
Google Play has revealed plans to allow app developers to use alternative billing and payment systems following an investigation by the UK’s competition watchdog.
WhatsApp has published an open letter warning that the UK government’s upcoming Online Safety Bill could lead to tech firms being forced to "break end-to-end encryption" on private messaging apps.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has welcomed the government’s proposed AI rules but called for more clarity before it goes ahead with its regulation plans.
Police in South Wales and London have said they will continue to use live facial recognition (LFR) to catch criminals after an independent report into the technology claimed it doesn’t discriminate based on gender, age or race.
Chinese video hosting platform TikTok has been hit with a £12.7 million penalty from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) over the misuse of children’s data.
Over the past few years, several hundred crypto ATMs have been stealthily operating in newsagents, coffee shops, and even fast-food establishments across the UK. Just as the pandemic was kicking off in Spring 2020, it looked as if these illegal machines were beginning to gain traction – with government figures showing that the number of Cryptoasset ATMs (CATMs) in the UK jumped from just 35 in 2016 to 271 in April of that year.