Data

The public needs and deserves clarity, and not just assurances, over the UK’s Covid-19 contact-tracing app

European Data Protection Board writes to MEPs saying the UK is at risk of failing to strike a post-Brexit data adequacy accord if its data protection agreements with the US don’t strike the right note

ROYAL Bank of Scotland is developing “behavioural biometrics” technology, which analyses factors such as the device being used online by customers and how it is being held, scrolling speed, and the time of purchases, and could replace passwords.

Babylon Health has acknowledged that its GP video appointment app has suffered a data breach.

Nintendo’s user account breach back in April, which at the time was thought to have affected 160,000 accounts, may have in face involved an additional 140,000 – for a total of 300,000 users affected by the hack (via Eurogamer).

https://www.mcvuk.com/business-news/nintendos-data-breach-affected-300000-users/

They fear data and financial loss more than their children finding inappropriate content online.

https://www.itproportal.com/news/data-and-financial-loss-biggest-cyber-fear-for-locked-down-uk-householders/

Police force representatives are in talks with Public Health England over operational security concerns arising from the NHS Test and Trace coronavirus contact-tracing scheme

Babylon Health has acknowledged that its GP video appointment app has suffered a data breach.

Liberty, Privacy International and the Open Rights Group join calls for the government to either put in place better data protection policies or abandon its Covid-19 contact-tracing app altogether

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252483972/Privacy-campaigners-call-for-radical-changes-to-contact-tracing-app

Public Health England failed to complete the required impact assessment before launching the Covid-19 Test and Trace programme