NHS England has made the decision to put a pause on their project to use GP data to train an artificial intelligence model, known as Foresight, following concerns raised by GP leaders. Foresight, the AI model with oversight from NHS England, is trained on de-identified NHS data from roughly 57 million patients in England. The purpose of the model is to predict potential health outcomes for patient groups across England, based on knowledge about the patient’s condition. NHS England has previously described it as working “like an auto-complete function for medical timelines”.

Toyota Bank Polska S.A, a bank based in Poland, have been fined a total of PLN 576,220 (roughly £110,000) by The Polish Data Protection Authority (UODO) for two significant violations of Polish data protection regulations.

Adidas, a global clothing and footwear brand, has joined the list of UK retailers to be hit by a cyber attack in the last few weeks. This comes following similar, though believed unrelated incidents on retailers such as Harrods, The Co-Op and Marks & Spencer, with the later expected to cost the company roughly £300 million.

Marks & Spencer are expecting a £300 million hit to their operating profits following a cyber attack that is expected to lead to disruption to online operations until July. While investigations into the incident are still ongoing, it is believed that the cyber attack, which has been blamed on ‘human error’, occurred after attackers tricked third-party IT helpdesk staff into giving them access to company systems. This is known as a ‘social engineering’ attack, where human error is relied on to gain unauthorised access to accounts and systems. In this case, it is believed that two IT logins were used as part of the attack.