Street Fighter fans facing knockout as data is hacked
Fans of the Street Fighter video game series might know exactly how to block even the baddest moves from the…
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Holiday hell: Booking hub exposes 10 million customers
A hotel booking platform used by Hotels.com, Booking.com and Expedia has exposed the personal information of over 10 million hotel…
Now Salesforce and Oracle face UK privacy class action
Salesforce and Oracle are set to join Facebook, easyJet, TalkTalk, Virgin Media and Google and be summoned to the High…
ICO and Irish DPC ‘among the worst GDPR enforcers’
Fresh evidence has emerged as to why privacy groups have such a beef against the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office and…
Deceptive data processing sparks biggest GDPR fines
Companies are far more likely to fall foul of GDPR for dodgy data processing than for any other issue, with…
Govt-backed Covid app hit by SamCam marketing gaffe
A Covid-19 tracking app, backed by Government funding and King’s College London, has been forced to issue a grovelling apology…
BA ‘humiliates’ ICO by slashing £183m fine to £20m
The Information Commissioner’s Office has been accused of a humiliating climbdown after being forced to slash its proposed GDPR fine…
Virgin Media has 4 weeks to settle breach case ‘or else’
Virgin Media has been given four weeks to admit liability for a major data breach, which left customers’ details freely…
Klarna ‘skating on thin ice’ over email marketing gaffe
Swedish fintech Klarna, which provides online financial services to many of the UK’s leading retailers, has been forced to apologise…
Once more with feeling: Marriott wins new delay to fine
Another week, and Marriott International has secured yet another delay to its proposed GDPR fine, the fifth time its lawyers…