Here you will find all the articles with the tag: united kingdom.
An independent report urges the UK to stop utilizing live facial recognition (LFR) in open spaces until legislation for biometric technology is in place. The Ada Lovelace Institute, an independent research institute, ordered the report to be conducted by Matthey Ryder, London's former deputy may... Read more
2 years ago
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority says a special tech regulator is needed. According to a report in the Financial Times, Britain is in danger of becoming a 'rule taker' from Brussels. The warning came after the federal government decided to not give its competition regulator powers to ... Read more
2 years ago
The rulings bring a two-year collaborative inquiry between the ICO and the Australian Information Commissioner's Office. Clearview AI, a face recognition startup, was fined £7.5 million (8.79 million euros) by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for violating UK data protection regulati... Read more
2 years ago
As per IBM research, the technology sector across Spain, Germany, and the UK struggle to find workers having adequate AI experience or skills. The AI experience or skills gap throughout Europe endangers digital innovation and curbs economic growth. More than 20% (a quarter) of technology recruit... Read more
2 years ago
John Edwards, the head of the UK’s data protection agency, believes leaving the EU gives Britain an advantage in fighting against data breaches. In an interview with Politico before a critical privacy conference in London on Wednesday, Edwards challenged the suggestion to muzzle his agency in ... Read more
2 years ago
Amazon to operate and build data centers in the UK. On Wednesday, Amazon Web Services announced that they're spending around 2.37 billion USD on operating and building data centers in the UK. The investment will be made over a period of two years. According to AWS, this move will almost doubl... Read more
2 years ago
In a new deal signed on Friday, the UK and Japan agreed to collaborate to expand the technologies on which telecom networks are built. Julia Lopez, the UK Minister for Digital Infrastructure, and Yuji Sasaki, Japan’s vice-minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, agreed ... Read more
2 years ago
Intel says Brexit means it is no longer considering the UK as the site to build a major new chip factory as part of its $95bn global expansion plans. Intel's CEO says Brexit means it is no longer considering the UK as the site to build a major new chip factory as part of its $95bn global expansi... Read more
3 years ago
Britain said it would reform the data rules it agreed to be a part of when it was still in the European Union. It plans to adopt a 'common sense' approach to facilitate data partnerships with the United States and other countries. That stance elicited a warning out of Brussels almost immediately... Read more
3 years ago
The British competition authority will start an investigation into the possible takeover of Arm by Nvidia. The investigation will look, among other things, into whether the acquisition might cause problems in the area of national security. The investigation will be carried out by the Competition... Read more
3 years ago
