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Bill Goodwin

Reporter · GB

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Sep 17, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Bill Goodwin

    Home Office challenged on ‘farcical’ secrecy over Apple ‘backdoor’ order | Computer Weekly (opens the original)

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    The government’s policy to neither confirm nor deny whether it has ordered Apple to provide ‘backdoor’ access to encrypted messages and data stored on Apple’s iCloud is “farcical”, a court heard today. Ben Jaffey KC representing campaign groups Privacy International and Liberty told the Investigatory Powers Tribunal that it was no longer sustainable for the Home Office to neither confirm nor deny that it had issued an order to the US technology company. “That horse has long bolted,” he told the

  2. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Bill Goodwin

    UK, US and Netherlands warn over Iranian state spyware campaign | Computer Weekly (opens the original)

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    Iranian state hackers are targeting dissidents, activists and journalists with spyware capable of tracking their movements, GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre has warned. The Iranian spear-phishing campaign has targeted people around the world, including the UK, according to alerts from the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the Netherlands and the USA. Iranian cyber attackers have used social engineering techniques to persuade people to download files containing hidden malware which

  3. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Bill Goodwin

    Financial firms face ‘vulnerability bottlenecks’ from frontier AI | Computer Weekly (opens the original)

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    Frontier artificial intelligence (AI) is uncovering security vulnerabilities at a faster rate than financial companies can patch them, creating “vulnerability bottlenecks”, the UK financial regulator has warned. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said yesterday that frontier AI is able to identify weaknesses in companies’ software, systems and infrastructure, making it difficult for firms to keep pace. The volume of vulnerabilities discovered by AI, even after triaging by human experts, can p

  4. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Bill Goodwin

    Lords considers government emergency AI kill switch | Computer Weekly (opens the original)

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    An amendment to the UK’s Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, currently passing through the House of Lords, proposes giving the government “last resort” powers to shut down large artificial intelligence (AI) systems in an emergency. The amendment proposed by Lib Dem peer Tim Clement-Jones will give the government powers to shut down datacentres or AI systems if they pose a threat to national security, public safety or critical infrastructure. The proposal, which is co-sponsored by Conservative pe

  5. Article · Aug 27, 2026 · Bill Goodwin

    Public wary of UK government ‘backdoor’ surveillance following Apple row, poll reveals | Computer Weekly (opens the original)

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    The public is wary of UK government surveillance powers that require technology companies to build “backdoors’ to access encrypted communications, according to a poll of 2,000 people in the UK by a Washington-based advocacy group. Only 12% of those surveyed believe the government should be able to issue secret orders to tech companies to allow government access to their private data, according to the poll commissioned by the Center for Democracy and Technology, which campaigns for strict indepen

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