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Exclusive: WFP to extend Palantir contract despite concerns raised in leaked audit

The UN's World Food Programme is finalising a five-year renewal of its contract with US data software firm Palantir despite “key privacy concerns” raised in a leaked 2025 internal audit. The audit, seen by PassBlue and FRANCE 24, reveals UN misgivings about allowing Palantir to process data for the world’s…

France 24

Apple Fights Secret UK Government Backdoor Order as Britons Lose Access To Advanced iCloud Encryption

Apple is contesting a reported UK encryption order after removing Advanced Data Protection for British iCloud users.

International Business Times UK

Apple launches legal challenge against UK government demand to access data

The Home Office has made a fresh request for ‘back door’ access to encrypted iCloud data belonging to British users

The Guardian - UK

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The end of encrypted DMs? Why Instagram is rolling back its biggest security feature

Your Instagram DMs are about to become a lot less private

TechRadar

Call for inquiry after families stripped of child benefit due to flawed travel data

Andrew Snowden MP says government ‘must immediate take action’ on failures of anti-fraud benefits crackdown

The Guardian - UK

Why you might want to think twice before using a period tracking app

LET’S UNPACK THAT: Millions of women are using digital platforms to make sense of their menstrual cycles, without necessarily thinking about the implications for their personal data. Katie Rosseinsky speaks to the experts about the risks, and hears from women who’ve quit the apps

The Independent UK

Delivery apps urged to lift lid on ‘black-box algorithms’ affecting UK couriers

Campaigners call for transparency from Deliveroo, JustEat and UberEats about how decisions on pay and jobs are made

The Guardian - UK

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‘AI’ tool could influence Home Office immigration decisions, critics say

Campaigners call for end of ‘robo-caseworkers’ amid fears officials will bow to automated enforcement proposals

The Guardian - UK

‘Get away from Hezbollah’: Has Israel hacked Lebanon’s telecoms networks?

Israel sends text messages and recordings to scores of people and hacks radio networks.

Al Jazeera

‘Shocking’ scale of UK government’s secret files on critics revealed

Dossiers were compiled by 15 departments after scouring social media activity to vet people invited to speak at official events

The Guardian - UK

UK data watchdog to review period and fertility apps amid security concerns

Move announced after ICO research found half of women using the tracking apps had concerns over how their data was being used

The Guardian - UK

Anti-abortion group’s data trove represents ‘serious concern’ post Roe

Heartbeat International, an Ohio-based nonprofit, has spent years collecting data on pregnant women to develop better ways to make sure women carry pregnancies to term and to persuade them from getting an abortion.

Tribune News Service

Facial recognition smartwatches to be used to monitor foreign offenders in UK

Home Office and MoJ plans will require migrants convicted of crimes to take photos up to five times a day

The Guardian - UK

Bristol council staff monitored social media posts and photos of SEND parents

Leaked documents reveal the council carried out surveillance last year of parents critical of local SEND provision

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The Independent UK

Priti Patel breached human rights with unlawful policy of seizing asylum seekers’ phones, court rules

The phones were taken before the asylum seekers could contact relatives to say they were safe

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