Google hit for €50m as French issue first GDPR fine
The French data protection regulator has issued the first fine under GDPR, slapping Google with a €50m (£44m) penalty for…
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New crackdown pushes fines for TPS abuse to over £1m
Companies which fail to check their data against the Telephone Preference Service have been warned to expect “robust” action on…
3 million numbers wiped from TPS as clean-up begins
The Information Commissioner’s Office has come good on its pledge to start removing inactive and invalid numbers from the Telephone…
MyLife Digital secures £6m funding for expansion drive
MyLife Digital, the data analytics firm behind Wood for Trees and Insight Analysis, has secured a further £6m in funding…
The dam bursts: companies hit by flood of data requests
Claims that companies would be inundated with data deletion requests once GDPR came in to force might appear to have…
British Airways grounded as data privacy storm erupts
British Airways has been hit by a major privacy backlash after its social media team was found to be asking…
Only a fifth of UK companies are compliant with GDPR
It seems that repeated warnings from the ICO, press hysteria or even the widespread scaremongering over GDPR have not shaken…
Data regulators busy, busy, busy now GDPR is in force
Some so-called experts might have poo-pooed it but data regulators across the EU have confirmed a sharp rise in their…
Sloppy BT whacked for sending 5 million illegal emails
BT has been consigned to the data-driven marketing hall of shame after becoming the latest major brand to have been…
Crisis? What crisis? GDPR fuels more potent marketing
Predictions that GDPR would ravage through the marketing industry like a plague of locusts have been blown out of the…