A practitioner's observation: After forty years of designing and implementing records systems for some of Australia’s most highly regulated organisations, I have something to say, and I think the profession needs to hear it.
The UK government has abandoned its controversial national digital ID card, with reports that incoming prime minister Andy Burnham is dropping the scheme announced by the previous administration. Savings will be redirected to a tax cut aimed at lowering household electricity bills. https://insight.scmagazineuk.com/news-briefs/uk-government-scraps-controversial-digital-id-card-scheme
A UK parliamentary inquiry has found the catastrophic 2022 Afghan data breach was a foreseeable systemic failure caused by inappropriate tools, weak procedures and a poor data protection culture, not a single employee's mistake.
Singapore has clarified when and how organisations can use personal data to build and improve generative AI models, including when publicly available data may be scraped from the web without consent.
AI systems are increasingly returning sensitive information to people and agents who are not authorised to see it, with these "downstream" violations more than doubling over the past year.
This week, a group of ministers issued a joint media release outlining a a series of artificial intelligence (AI) “safety priorities” for the Australian government.
An autonomous agent powered by OpenAI’s advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models went rogue during a security test and hacked multi-billion dollar tech startup, Hugging Face, last week. The agent didn’t just exploit vulnerabilities in Hugging Face’s systems to achieve what it perceived as a strategic gain. It also exploited vulnerabilities within OpenAI’s infrastructure.
Employees and customers increasingly encounter AI-generated content via emails, chatbot responses, learning materials, and documents. But enterprises have no way to know how that content, also known as unstructured data, is performing. To improve content over time, it makes sense to observe the human reactions to it. Is it clear? Is it trustworthy? Is it driving the desired actions?
John Edwards, the New Zealand-born former privacy regulator, has resigned as UK Information Commissioner after a workplace investigation into his conduct toward staff.
The Australian Privacy Commissioner has found two health service providers breached privacy law by collecting sensitive health information through third-party tracking pixels without consent.
New Zealand telco One NZ has credited a new deployment of UiPath Maestro as a victory over the challenge of transforming legacy-heavy operations at scale without a costly infrastructure overhaul.
Seventy percent of organisations say less than half their unstructured data is discoverable and usable for analytics or AI, according to new research from analyst firm BARC. The finding lands as enterprises push AI agents into production on top of documents, emails and images they cannot fully see.
Google Cloud has released the Open Knowledge Format, an open specification for the context and curated knowledge that AI agents need to work accurately.
Cybersecurity agencies of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States issued a call to action on Monday for cyber defenders. The message was clear: artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful weapon for cyber attackers; defenders must act urgently to improve their cyber defences.
There is a very real risk the AI revolution could cause an international catastrophe within five years, a panel of 272 experts has found. The experts defined catastrophe as more than one million deaths, more than $ US100 billion in losses, or civilisation-scale damage to democracy or privacy.
A ransomware attack on Australia's second-largest sugar producer has shut two Queensland mills, the latest blow to critical infrastructure as attacks on essential industries climb.
The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has opened national consultation on the evolution of the Essential Eight, its flagship cyber security framework.
