Bill Goodwin

The Court of Appeal finds that the Investigatory Powers Tribunal has no power to award costs against Northern Ireland police despite ‘unreasonable conduct’ by the force

Operational pressures do not reduce the need for lawful and consistent safeguards, says Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s Office (IPCO)

Austria is following Germany’s lead by introducing a sovereign encrypted messaging service for healthcare professionals

Home Office seeks technical fixes to immigration and asylum while invoking national security to avoid disclosing the growing use of AI in decision making, claims report

Luxembourg is rolling out a secure encrypted messaging service based on the open source Matrix protocol, for use by government, businesses and citizens, offering a sovereign alternative to WhatsApp and Signal

Court of Appeal to decide whether Investigatory Powers Tribunal has powers to award compensation for legal costs to victims of unlawful surveillance

A reimagined structure for the UK data regulator raises questions about the effectiveness of its oversight, as staff continue to express concern over a toxic workplace culture that has taken hold under the organisation’s leadership

Northern Ireland journalist subject to unlawful communications surveillance seeks damages from police in Northern Ireland in high court claim for data protection breaches and harassment

French local authorities to deploy ‘sovereign’ end-to-end encrypted messaging service in a move away from US big tech

UK government argues that national security would be damaged if it departs from ‘neither confirm nor deny policy’ on Apple ‘backdoor’ notice

Cyber attackers linked to Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security are targeting opponents and opposition groups with Windows spyware

Computer Weekly's Bill Goodwin has seen both sides of the courtroom during a career spent exposing the surveillance state and protecting those who wish to let the world know its secrets

MPs and peers call for the UK to create a statutory AI oversight body with powers to test and evaluate high-risk uses of AI and to prevent the deployment of AI that poses risks to human rights

An amendment to the UK’s Cyber Security and Resilience Bill will give the government powers to switch off AI systems or datacentres in an emergency

A poll of 2,000 UK citizens taken after the government issued a secret order seeking access to Apple users’ encrypted data finds that the public is sceptical of government surveillance powers

Computer Weekly reveals for the first time how French cyber spies hacked EncroChat phones used by organised crime groups

Northern Ireland police monitored phone communications of former BBC security editor Brian Rowan after he wrote about a police and MI5 agent in Northern Ireland

The UK’s Supreme Court rules that Bahrain cannot claim sovereign immunity for infecting the computers of two UK-based dissidents with German-made FinFisher spyware.

The Security Service, MI5 and the Police Service of Northern Ireland have been ordered to pay damages to a former BBC journalist, Vincent Kearney, following multiple attempts to identify his confidential sources

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