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Data protection

May 2026

  • design image

    AI facial recognition oversight lagging far behind technology, watchdogs warn

  • EXPLAINER

    How does live facial recognition work and how many UK police forces use it?

  • Driver using smartphone with Uber app mounted on dashboard while driving

    Dynamic pay on platforms such as Uber should be banned, says TUC

  • Polly Toynbee

    double quotation markUK Biobank has my data, but I’m not worried. I know the benefits are too great to consider pulling out

    Polly Toynbee

April 2026

  • A general view of Alibaba's headquarters in Hangzhou, China

    More private health records of UK Biobank volunteers appear on Chinese website

  • John Edwards, the information commissioner

    UK information commissioner steps back amid workplace investigation

  • Passengers on a platform at Copenhagen central station in Denmark.

    Some Interrail travellers told to cancel passports as hacked data posted online

  • Gold coloured shelves storing hundreds of samples

    What is the UK Biobank project and what are the privacy concerns around it?

  • Met police in talks to buy Palantir AI tech for use in criminal investigations

  • Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears

  • MP rejects Palantir’s claims that criticism of NHS England deal is ‘ideologically motivated’

March 2026

  • Two men examine a quantum computer in Google's Santa Barbara lab

    Google warns quantum computers could hack encrypted systems by 2029

  • Peter Thiel during a Fox News interview in New York

    MPs urge UK government to halt contract giving Palantir FCA data access

  • Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, offers a pair of hundred-dollar bills to attendees during a keynote address at the Bitcoin Conference

    Palantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA data

  • Nigel Farage speaking at a press conference.

    Reform UK may breach data laws with free energy bills competition

  • UK regulator examines IT glitch that enabled bank customers to see others’ accounts on app

  • Palantir’s NHS England contract ‘opens door to government abuse of power’, health bosses told

February 2026

  • JPortrait of Emmerson Mnangagwa, president of Zimbabwe

    Rising anger over ‘lop-sided’ and ‘immoral’ US health funding pacts with African countries

    Zimbabwe refuses to sign agreement and Kenya faces a court case over data sharing as new aid deals come under scrutiny
  • Reddit logo on a screen

    Reddit fined £14.5m in UK over use of under-13s’ data

    Information Commissioner’s Office imposes largest fine yet for a breach of children’s privacy
  • Protest against Palantir Technologies UK in LondonPicketers from 'Health Workers for a Free Palestine' demonstrate against software company, Palantir Technologies UK, by blocking access to their offices, in London, Britain December 21, 2023. REUTERS/Isabel Infantes

    Palantir deals are a threat to our data rights as UK citizens

    Letters: This US tech giant should not have been given NHS or Ministry of Defence contracts, writes Stephen Saunders. Plus a letter from Jan Savage
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