Denmark’s culture minister, Zenia Stampe, put a bill before the Folketing on 8 October banning publication of realistic digital imitations of a person’s appearance, voice and movements without consent. She proposes effect from 1 January 2027. It is the second attempt: the prior version lapsed in Danish elections, after the 31 March 2026 and 1 … Read more
Construction of the Fehmarnbelt tunnel, the submerged road and rail link designed to connect Germany and Denmark beneath the Baltic Sea, has been disrupted by a cyber incident at the contractor consortium building it, Femern Link Contractors (FLC). The project’s own Danish company, Femern A/S, confirmed the disruption on Tuesday, 13 October, while the state … Read more
Denmark’s government confirmed on 5 October that its Central Person Register (CPR) — the identity database at the heart of the country’s highly digitised public sector — was compromised and most of its contents stolen. Officials have labelled it the most serious cyber incident in Danish history. Depending on the figure cited, between 8 million … Read more