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Bedfordshire Hospitals says Palantir-linked NHS platform only used for costing pilot

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust says its only current use of the Palantir-linked NHS Federated Data Platform is a national costing pilot and that no changes have been...
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Bedford Ian writes…

20 June 2025: Hot dogs, Big brother, and Park(ing) life. It's Friday, and Bedford Ian has been looking at recent goings on across Bedford Borough and tells us what he thinks of it all...
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Bedfordshire Police using AI tool to profile political views, sex life, race and health data

Bedfordshire Police is piloting a controversial AI-powered data system that can access highly sensitive information about individuals, including their race, political views, sex life...
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Bedford Borough Council changes public data after breach, but won’t report to ICO

Bedford Borough Council has altered a set of publicly published spending data after mistakenly including personal names. However, the council has decided not to report the incident...
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Bedford Borough Council denies breaking data protection laws after housing interviews held in open

Bedford Borough Council has denied breaching data protection law by holding housing interviews in an open plan office after concerns were raised at a meeting, and that private interview...
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Data protection is still ‘business as usual’ for Bedford businesses after Queen’s speech

A notable inclusion in the Queen's Speech earlier this month was the proposed UK Data Reform Bill – the “Brexit Dividend” as the Government has labelled it. The Government claim...
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Privacy Helper announces GDPR support service for SMEs

Bedford based Privacy Helper is one of the UK’s leading GDPR consultancies, helping over 150 organisations in the last three years - ranging from major corporates to businesses in the local...
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First GDPR fines expected as privacy legislation ‘celebrates’ 1st birthday

On 25th May, 2019, the GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation 'celebrates' its first anniversary of being legally enforceable. There's still much confusion about what businesses...
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Bedford BID removes survey over GDPR concerns

Bedford BID temporarily removed a survey from their Love Bedford website last week, after the Bedford Independent raised concerns about how they were collecting data...
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