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Privacy watchdog warning on facial recognition technology

The Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has warned that the use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology must comply with privacy laws. "Any… More

11 July 2019

Southern Water has been fined £3 million in penalties and £123 million in payments to customers, following an investigation by the regulator Ofwat. It is the biggest penalty Ofwat has imposed. The… More

Cyber security professionals say adversaries have an overwhelming upper hand in the war to protect organisations from online crime – and that skills shortage in the field is making matters worse. Those… More

Anti-competitive practices have moved up the agenda after the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) secured the disqualification of two former directors of the construction company CPM Group Ltd in April following the… More

Embedding risk management is often seen as the holy grail of an effective organisation. Research by  ACCA now shows that although organisations have similar risk management objectives, the paths they take to… More

The Institute of Risk Management is delighted to announce that the Institute of Operational Risk will be joining the IRM group. This comes following a vote at the IOR Annual General Meeting… More

The Russian government approved a bill in April that would give the state communications regulator Roskomnadzor the ability to control traffic on the Internet – giving it the potential to effectively isolating… More

The government agreed to pay out £33 million to Eurotunnel after miscalculating the risks associated with procuring addition ferry freight services in the run up to Brexit, according to a report by… More

Contributed by Martin Tang We are delighted to announce that Kai Grunwitz will be the opening keynote speaker at our forthcoming Cyber Risk Management in the Digital Age event. He is a well-known… More

The European Commission (EC) has published ethical guidelines detailing the parameters for how businesses and other public organisations should use artificial intelligence (AI). The document – Ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI –… More