DOGE staffers have skirted privacy laws, training and security protocols to gain virtually unfettered access to financial and personal information stored in siloed government databases.| NPR
Councillors in West Northamptonshire last night slammed Reform UK’s plan to access council data as part of a drive that it claims is intended to reduce local “fraud and waste”. In a key test of Reform’s battle to access data from councils, West Northamptonshire became the first to welcome unnamed and unpaid “experts” from the party’s […]| DeSmog
Could Elon Musk’s AI-fuelled assault on the public sector become a template for cuts in the UK? We need to put people at the heart of public spending, says Susan Morgan.| Good Law Project
The economic impacts of the UK failing to secure an EU data adequacy decision| New Economics Foundation