Tag Archives: Watchdog

Government plans to overhaul the country’s ailing railway system are significantly delayed while promised savings have yet to be achieved, according to a highly critical report by the government’s spending watchdog. The National Audit Office (NAO) assessment of how ministers’ plans were progressing found the government had failed to meet …

Why is the little ol’ Competition & Markets Authority, a UK regulator, inserting itself into the entertaining and important – but distant – drama at San Francisco-based OpenAI? Even if the CMA finds eventually that Microsoft, another US company, is pulling the strings at Sam Altman’s show, what could it …

DOJ inspector general releases report on death of well-connected financier as he awaited sex trafficking charges. A “combination of negligence and misconduct” allowed US financier Jeffrey Epstein to die by suicide in a federal jail as he awaited sex trafficking charges, according to a watchdog report. The scathing report, released …

The former head of Britain’s police watchdog has been charged with child sex offences including the alleged rape of a girl under the age of 16 in the 1980s.   Michael Lockwood, 64, is accused of six counts of indecent assault and three counts of rape against a girl under …

TikTok has been fined £12.7million for a number of data protection law breaches, including failing to use children’s personal data lawfully, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said.   The ICO said more than one million children under 13 were using TikTok in 2020, despite its terms of use not allowing …

CNN  —  Efforts are underway to find more than 2 tons of natural uranium reported missing from supplies held in Libya, the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed Wednesday. A spokesman from the nuclear watchdog told CNN in an email that “approximately 2.5 tons of natural uranium” contained in 10 drums …

WASHINGTON — The inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security directed the Secret Service to halt its internal search for purged texts sent by agents around the time of Jan. 6 so that it does not “interfere with an ongoing criminal investigation,” according to a letter reviewed by The …