ICO settlement puts kibosh on Facebook compensation
Facebook’s settlement with the Information Commissioner’s Office has effectively blown out of the water any hopes that UK consumers would…
Compensation
Equifax faces £100m data breach pay-out claim in UK
Equifax’s 2017 data breach – which affected an estimated 15 million UK customers – has come back to bite the…
Lawyers given 15 months to build BA breach legal case
Lawyers have until January 2021 to convince up to 500,000 victims of the British Airways data breach to join a…
BA case may open floodgates for psychological claims
Legal action against British Airways over last year’s data breach will be the test case for whether lawyers can prove…
Data breaches can hit mental health, legal firm claims
Data breach compensation lawyers Hayes Connor – one of two UK “ambulance chasing” legal firms wooing British Airways customers – has…
Ambulance chasing lawyers bolster attack against BA
Compensation lawyers are ramping up their efforts to corral British Airways customers to file claims against the airline following the…
Virgin Media ‘to lose millions in online outage pay-outs’
Virgin Media could be facing a compensation bill of up to £8m a year from new Ofcom rules which will…
Law firm launches group action over BA data breach
The GDPR compensation lawyers have wasted little time in pouncing on British Airways following last week’s data breach, with SPG…
Google faces £3bn High Court battle over data tracking
A group of disgruntled Google users – led by former Which? director Richard Lloyd – has started a class action…
ICO vows to pursue chiefs as Cambridge Analytica folds
The Information Commissioner’s Office has confirmed it will continue its civil and criminal investigations into Cambridge Analytica and hunt down…