The way the UK government has been tagging migrants with GPS trackers is illegal, the country’s privacy regulator ruled on Friday, in a rebuke to officials who have been experimenting with migrant-surveillance tech in both the UK and the US. As part of an 18-month pilot that concluded in December, the UK interior ministry, known … Read more
Mark Nelson took the call in an immigration detention center—a place that, to him, felt just like prison. It had the same prison windows, the same tiny box rooms. By the time the phone rang, he’d already spent 10 days detained there, and he was wracked with worry that he would be forced onto a … Read more
The high number of cases in the UK also reflects the difficulty of eradicating an outbreak, says Jo Middleton, a research fellow at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, who is involved in scabies research in the UK and around the globe. Bedding and furniture need to be completely decontaminated, while medicines like permethrin are not … Read more
Deadly bioweapons, automated cybersecurity attacks, powerful AI models escaping human control. Those are just some of the potential threats posed by artificial intelligence, according to a new UK government report. It was released to help set the agenda for an international summit on AI safety to be hosted by the UK next week. The report … Read more
“I completely agree with [Sunak’s] strategy, which is to attempt international consensus. But my guess is international consensus will form only around the broadest of principles,” says Jeremy Wright, a former UK digital minister for Sunak’s Conservative Party. “Feasibly, if you’re going to do anything, you probably have to do it nationally before you do … Read more
Because it rolls from one political disaster to a different, it’s exhausting not to consider Britain as metaphorically crumbling. Now, it appears, important items of the nation are actually structurally unsound. Greater than 150 faculties, schools, and nurseries in England have been ordered to shut elements of their buildings as a result of looming menace … Read more
Tech corporations and privateness activists are claiming victory after an eleventh-hour concession by the British authorities in a long-running battle over end-to-end encryption. The so-called “spy clause” within the UK’s On-line Security Invoice, which consultants argued would have made end-to-end encryption all however not possible within the nation, will not be enforced after the federal … Read more