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Cyber News 01DEC2025

General

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Getting Techy

Geo-Politics

  • [UK] Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) forecasts £1.8b (£0.6b annual cost over the next three years) to rollout digital ID cards.
"countless benefits, like being able to prove your identity to access key services swiftly"

Privacy

  • [FR] Concern over France's position on privacy, and support for the much maligned Chat Control legislation has lead to privacy-focused mobile-OS GrapheneOS leaving French cloud provider OVH
  • [UK] At least one company must be doing well from all of the data breaches - UK ISP Brsk suffers a breach, and rolls out the formulaic "we care" response.
We have informed affected customers, and as an additional precaution, we are offering them 12 months of free personal, financial, and web-monitoring services provided by Experian
  • [US] California's latest amendment to the Consumer Privacy Act, requiring browser signalling of data-sharing opt-out, must work for all California residents, regardless of VPNs or current location. This will likely lead to the capability being rolled out for all in the US, perhaps even globally.
it's actually quite simple for these browsers to implement — what's not simple is for them to understand who is a California resident and who is not which is why it will likely be national

AI

  • More confirmation that ChatGPT is getting advertising.
This move could disrupt the web economy, as what most people don't understand is that GPT likely knows more about users than Google
The leak suggests that ads will initially be limited to the search experience only, but this may change in the future.
Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90%
Poetic framing achieved an average jailbreak success rate of 62% for hand-crafted poems and approximately 43% for meta-prompt conversions
in September 37% of Americans used generative AI at work, down from 46% in June
while 87% of executives use AI on the job, just 57% of managers and 27% of employees do
  • [UK] If (When) the AI tech bubble bursts, it could impact the UK budget by £26b by 2028.
After the dotcom bubble equity prices fell 46 per cent
In the first scenario of a “global correction”, both UK and world equity prices fall by 35 per cent from a peak in 2026-27. This would cause a £27 billion fall in forecast tax revenue

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