Enterprise sustainability practices are coming under close scrutiny from clients, consumers, governments, and regulators. IT companies, and organisations with IT estates, should be proactive to ensure their sustainability, environmental reporting and climate action practices hold up. For greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reporting in particular, those responsible for leading sustainability in each organisation should familiarise […]

The European Court of Justice has heard legal arguments from EU member states whether electronic communications obtained by an international police operation to hack the EncroChat encrypted phone network can be lawfully used as evidence in courts in the European Union. Prosecutors from France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Hungary, Sweden, the Czech Republic, and […]

HSBC has joined the BT and Toshiba commercial quantum secure metro network, connecting its global HQ in Canary Wharf and a datacentre in Berkshire. The quantum secure transmission test will involve sending data over fibre-optic cables between its global HQ in Canary Wharf and the datacentre. HSBC also hopes to use the trial to […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies could boost the UK economy to the tune of £400bn by the year 2030 by making people more productive in their day jobs and opening up new career paths to them. That’s according to Google’s Economic impact report, which was compiled by business management consultancy Public First and set out […]

A series of damaging cyber incidents in which data was stolen or leaked from NHS organisations seems to have done little to dent public confidence in the health service’s ability to safeguard their personal healthcare data, with 59% of 2,000 respondents to a VMware study trusting the NHS to do so. However, amid increasingly […]

IT contractors engaged via umbrella companies are being urged to ensure they understand their pay slips after two firms were found to have made unlawful deductions from the pay packets of their employees. The firms in question, trading as DNS Umbrella Ltd and Umbrella Company Ltd, were both the subject of separate Employment Tribunals […]

In a move thought likely to widen scrutiny of big tech companies and online platforms, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that national anti-trust authorities can examine whether such organisations are operating in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and dealt a potentially fatal blow to […]

Government plans to be a “science and technology superpower” do not take into account the extent of digital exclusion in the UK, according to a report from the House of Lords. The report claims the government “does not have a credible strategy” for closing the digital inclusion gap, which will not only prevent the […]

China is set to put in place export restrictions, in a move that could seriously impact the global semiconductor sector. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce and Administration of Customs said that from August 2023, several gallium and germanium-based compounds would be subject to export restrictions to safeguard national security and interests. According to the […]

As hybrid work continues to evolve, in particular through increasing use of bandwidth-hungry video-collaboration tools, companies are finding that their local area networks (LANs) are struggling to support hybrid workers’ expectations when accessing apps. To address this, BT has announced a partnership with HPE Aruba Networking to launch a new managed LAN service. With […]