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2026·07·22
Four days, 490 records: the insider breach nobody budgets for A new council worker opened ~490 sensitive safeguarding records and downloaded 94 over four days — then got a suspended sentence. The sentence is the least interesting part. Why insider snooping is the breach nobody budgets for, and why you can't rely on prosecution to stop it. data protection · insider risk · privacy
8 min
2026·07·11
It wasn't a misdirected email: the NHS Forth Valley breach The headlines called it an email blunder. It wasn't — a staff member moved a spreadsheet of 150 maternity patients' data to their own personal inbox. Why that distinction matters, where NHS Scotland keeps going wrong, and the controls that actually stop it. data protection · privacy · insider risk
10 min
2026·07·06
Everyone in the shop is a suspect Sainsbury's is tripling its Facewatch facial recognition, scanning every shopper's face against a private watchlist to catch a few. It's biometric special-category data, the ICO's own guidance calls it the hardest case to justify, and 'it works' is not the same as 'it's lawful.' privacy · surveillance · data protection
11 min
2026·06·21
Least certain exactly where it has to decide: the Home Office age guesser A facial age-estimation system whose error margin is widest at the one line it exists to draw is not a decision aid. Setting the immigration politics aside, it fails on accuracy and privacy alone. ai governance · privacy · data protection · biometrics
6 min
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