According to a report in BBC Tech and available at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdrkmk00jy0o, Google search engine results were showing user conversation with the AI chatbot Grok, seemingly without user’s knowledge. One commentator described AI chatbots as a privacy disaster in progress. Whilst that may be an oversimplification, it is certainly true that AI chatbots do pose some […]
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Summer break and your ideas to improve Insights
The insight newsletters will be taking a summer break during the school holidays, apart from urgent news that we need to share with you straight away. However, work will be going on behind the scenes to give them a facelift and make them more useful to you. To help this, we will shortly be sending […]
NCSC updates top tips for staff and free training
For some time, we have advocated the use of the NCSC’s free training as one element of your cybersecurity preparedness, and so it’s good to see that they have updated it, and yes it’s still free. You can use it standalone or build it into your training software, if you have some, and you can […]
Data protection in the world of Gen AI
More of our data protection questions are related to how Gen AI is, or could be, used and the ICO’s Information Commissioner has contributed to the debate with a helpful article that you can read at https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs/2025/06/information-commissioner-people-must-trust-their-data-is-protected-in-the-age-of-ai/. It links to the ICO’s published Gen AI strategy, and signposts more guidance to help us all in […]
No AI used to create Insights
We have recently been asked if we use Generative AI to create the weekly Insights email newsletters. It’s a fair question and the answer is ‘no’. At the end of each week, we spend a few hours sifting through all the news sources we subscribe to and other information, and distilling it into what we […]