FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried arrested in the Bahamas

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency company FTX, was arrested in the Bahamas on Monday. He now faces criminal charges in the United States, with the SEC saying…

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Inside Miami’s Effort To Become America’s Cryptocurrency Capital

Miami is hoping to lure tech from Silicon Valley and finance from New York by embracing cryptocurrency. CNBC’s Kate Rooney takes us to the city for a closer look at…

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Data Protection law can help create public trust and confidence around COVID-status certification schemes

From contact tracing apps to temperature checks at airports, from businesses recording customers’ details to organisations sharing health data to help the vulnerable, it is clear that the responsible use…

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Digitization in times of COVID-19; 4 Technologies that Flourish Amidst the Lockdown

As the contour of 2020 and the first quarter (Q1) of 2021 has been progressively defined by the Covid-19 pandemic, digitalization has been like a vessel laden with technology that…

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Cryptocurrency Helps to Recover Sports Betting Amidst the COVID-19

During the Covid-19 pandemic where congregating is a very big risk to our health, cryptocurrency has become a godsend to gamblers because it provides the unmatched social distancing required in…

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Supporting NHS COVID-19 vaccine research in the pandemic

The ICO has been working with NHS Digital during the pandemic as part of the sandbox to help them deliver a mechanism to sign volunteers up to COVID-19 vaccine research. 

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Blog: Access to information: driving change through education, engagement and enforcement

Here at the ICO, we recognise how hard organisations are working to keep running effective businesses and services in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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ClinTex Opens Up Retail Access to the $350 Billion Medical Trials Market

With modern advancements in the fields of medicine and health advancing at an ever-increasing pace, the value of research and development has followed suit, with the specific area of clinical…

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Statement in response to details about an NHSX contact tracing app to help deal with the COVID-19 pandemic

Statement in response to details about an NHSX contact tracing app to help deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.

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