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Flood warning: How citizens’ AI agents will swamp public services. While governments eagerly look to implement AI to cut costs, they are less prepared for an incoming wave as people begin to use AI agents to drive applications to public services.

Food delivery giant Just Eat and motoring site Autotrader are among five firms being investigated as part of a probe into fake and misleading online reviews by the UK's competition watchdog. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which is also examining funeral firm Dignity, reviews site Feefo and fresh pasta chain Pasta Evangelists, is looking at whether they have broken consumer law.

An independent game developer for Roblox says he believes the platform's child safety measures, including age verification checks, do not go far enough. Roblox is the most popular gaming platform in the UK among eight to 12-year-olds.

Confidential health records from UK BioBank project exposed online. Exclusive: Guardian investigation finds data from flagship medical research leaked dozens of times. Confidential health data has been exposed online on dozens of occasions, a Guardian investigation can reveal, raising questions about the safeguarding of patient records by one of the UK’s flagship medical research projects.

Yoti has been fined 950,000 euros (roughly US$1.1 million) by Spanish data protection regulator AEPD for the handling of biometrics and other data within its digital identity app. The regulator has ruled Yoti violated three clauses of the EU’s General Data Protection Rule (GDPR).

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