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Reuben Binns discusses the challenges organisations may face in implementing mechanisms in AI systems that allow data subjects to exercise their rights of access, rectification & erasure. This post is part of the ICO’s ongoing Call for Input on developing the ICO framework for auditing AI. We encourage you to share your views by emailing the ICO at AIAuditingFramework@ico.org.uk. Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) individuals have a number of rights relating to their personal data. These rights apply to personal data used at the various points in the development & deployment lifecycle of an AI system, including personal data:
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ICO: Enabling access, erasure, & rectification rights in AI systems ICO Blog: Privacy and Innovation – lessons learnt from the FCA TechSprint |
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ALERT |
The NCSC is investigating an automated, ongoing, widespread credential-harvesting phishing campaign currently affecting the UK. The campaign has been active since at least July 2018 through various iterations, with a recent spike in reports to the NCSC in early October 2019. It appears to be spreading indiscriminately across a very broad range of UK sectors. In this campaign, the user receives a phishing email from a legitimate and known email account which has been compromised. Phishing emails were previously sent from contacts in recent email communications with the recipient, and the subject lines often mirrored the most recent email exchange. This created an initial plausibility for the user to trust the email. The NCSC is aware that victim accounts have been compromised without a user actually entering any credentials. It is possible that the actor has used password spraying to gain access. Following compromise, the actors access the accounts remotely (via IMAP) to monitor the victim mailbox and observe the sent items. The account is then accessed a second time to disseminate this phishing email further (via SMTP), using the victim’s address book identified in the previous access. To report an ongoing incident associated with this campaign to the NCSC, please visit here. |
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NCSC: Alert: Mass credential harvesting phishing campaign active in the UK BEIS: Confronting cyber threats to businesses and personal data Open, outward facing and collaborative equals more vulnerable! |
Editor’s choice of other ICT items of note: |
techUK: £13m announced for new AI conversion courses techUK: How can regulators help the UK achieve net zero? |
The ‘cake’ is not big enough |
CQC’s annual assessment shows that care quality ratings have been maintained overall in England – but people’s experience of care is determined by whether they can access good care when they need it. Providing the right access to the right care at the right time is increasingly key to the sustainability of health & social care as services struggle to cope with increased demand. When people can’t access the services they need, the risk is that they are pushed into inappropriate care settings – ending up in emergency departments because they can’t access the care they need outside hospital, or in crisis because they can’t access community based mental health and learning disability services. Difficulties in accessing the right care can mean that people with a learning disability or autism end up detained in unsuitable hospitals. CQC’s ongoing thematic review, which begun in 2018, highlighted the prolonged use of segregation for people with severe & complex problems who should instead be receiving specialist care from staff with highly specialised skills. This year’s State of Care considers & pressures faced by health & social care as a whole – but focuses particularly on inpatient mental health & learning disability services, the area where CQC is seeing an impact on quality. Read the State of Care 2018/19 summary online and download the full report. While the overall quality picture for the mental health sector, which includes community mental health services, remains stable, this masks a real deterioration in some specialist inpatient services which has continued after 31 July 2019, the cut-off point for the data included in the report. Since October 2018, 14 independent mental health hospitals that admit people with a learning disability and/or autism have been rated inadequate and put into special measures. Two of these services have since improved, 3 are now closed and 1 service is still registered, but is closed to new admissions with no people resident. Although inspectors have seen much good and some outstanding care, they have also seen too many people using mental health and learning disability services being looked after by staff who lack the skills, training, experience or support from clinical staff to care for people with complex needs. |
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The King's Fund responds to the CQC's State of care report LGA responds to CQC State of Care report Patients Association - CQC 'State of Care' report highlights need for urgent action Children’s Commissioner for England response to CQC report on the state of care DHSC: Next phase of adult social care recruitment campaign begin NHS Digital: New resources help organisations to support older people to use digital NHS England: Rough sleepers in homeless hotspots to benefit from NHS mental health outreach They are valued members of society We are really just starting to appreciate the size of the problem Technology can help, but are we quite sure when & how best to use it Connecting all the services together Care Home residents are entitled to the ‘best & most appropriate’ care Maybe the PM’s promises will finally resolve this issue! Integration is the key to cost effective and improved health & care services |
SME Supplier Locator update... | ||
UK Government and public sector spend with SME’s is continually on the increase and by 2020, it is the stated intent of Cabinet Office that £1 of every £3 spent on government contracts goes to SME’s. Against this ambitious backdrop, the WiredGov Supplier Locator service has been developed specifically to embrace the SME Agenda and provide the ideal platform for SME’s to promote their services, solutions, accreditation and success stories directly to our ever increasing audience across all government and public sector verticals and Tier 1 suppliers.
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How much of this will still be relevant in 3 months time? |
Her Majesty’s most gracious speech to both Houses of Parliament. A selection of responses to the Queen’s Speech 2019. |
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Cabinet Office: Queen's Speech 2019 Queen's Speech: LGA responds to Devolution White Paper Queen's Speech: LGA responds to Building Safety Bill Queen's Speech: LGA responds to Environment Bill Queen's Speech: LGA responds to social care announcement IEA: Queen’s Speech focused on increasing “Government intervention”, ignoring role of markets EHRC: Queen's speech 2019: a time of great uncertainty and change |
Will anything happen before a General Election? |
The government has set out measures to go further & faster to tackle climate change, in response to Committee on Climate Change (CCC) recommendations. The government’s official response to the CCC’s recommendation includes plans to strengthen governance to galvanise the whole of government to do more to tackle climate change and a bold & ambitious plan to accelerate the decarbonisation of transport. This comes 4 months after the UK became the first major economy to legislate for net zero emissions by 2050. |
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Defra: UK to go further and faster to tackle climate change CCC: Committee comments on Government response to its 2019 Progress Report Defra: Leading the charge for the environment 10DS: PM to chair new Cabinet Committee on Climate Change WAG: Wales may be a small nation, but we have a big ambition – Lesley Griffiths WAG: What is the Welsh Government doing to tackle climate change? |
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