Luxury jewellery, designer fashion and perfume worth a combined £16m were bought from Harrods by a woman who has been hit with the UK’s first unexplained wealth order. Zamira Hajiyeva blew £600,000 in a single day at the London department store as part of a decade-long spending spree there, splashing out £30,000 on chocolates in one afternoon. The 55-year-old spent…
A recent survey commissioned by Shred-it, one of the UK’s leading information security companies and a Stericycle solution, has revealed a positive understanding and engagement with the principles of GDPR among SMEs on its first anniversary. The findings show that 72% of UK SMEs report being ‘very aware’ of its requirements. However, 60% reported that the…
A little over a year ago, amid the global furor over revelations that terrabytes of ostensibly personal Facebook data had been harvested by now defunct U.K. political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, Process Nerd mused — somewhat presciently, as it turned out — over what, exactly, might happen if the House ethics committee decided they needed to hear…
Highly unusually, a North Korean dictator and a global human rights body may find themselves on the same page regarding the corruption that is endemic across the deeply isolated and impoverished nation. On Tuesday, the UN Humans Rights Office released a 43-page report, “The price is rights: The violation of the right to an adequate standard…
While it has all the hallmarks of transnational organised crime, the illegal wildlife trade continues to be viewed as being outside ‘mainstream crime’. Frequently linked to other forms of serious crime such as fraud, corruption and money laundering, the illegal wildlife trade generates an estimated US$20 billion annually and is the fourth most profitable criminal trafficking enterprise…
The news, for Chinese telecom giant Huawei, keeps getting worse. While the United States has outright banned the company from future government work, the United Kingdom has been more accepting of the fact that many of the underlying flaws in Huawei’s devices and code are fixable. The UK established the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre…
Spanish police were carrying out an operation on Tuesday against several footballers, ex-players and club executives accused of fixing matches in the first and second divisions, a source close to the case said. The source, who refused to be named, said that matches were allegedly fixed in the first and second divisions during this season…
BEIJING – Senior executives at eight banking institutions in China’s Tianjin were warned by the city’s top Communist Party official against corruption, the country’s graft-buster said on Wednesday. Tianjin’s Party boss Li Hongzhong criticized some officials at Tianjin’s financial institutions for having “lost morality” and “seriously violating the Party’s rules and discipline”, the Central Commission…
Indonesian police have arrested six suspects believed to be linked with a plan to assassinate four state officials and a prominent pollster as part of a broader plot to sow unrest ahead of last week’s Jakarta riots that left eight people dead. Five men and one woman had been detained on suspicion of accepting payments…
As smart assistants and voice interfaces become more common, we’re giving away a new form of personal data — our speech. This goes far beyond just the words we say out loud. Speech lies at the heart of our social interactions, and we unwittingly reveal much about ourselves when we talk. When someone hears a…