Consumers ‘have to jump through hoops’ for ICO to act
Lodging a successful complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office is being made virtually impossible by the endless red tape which individuals…
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Intimate corporate secrets of car giants leaked online
It has been well documented that customer data breaches can be potentially disastrous for many businesses, hitting shares, sales and…
Equifax tries to kill off ‘far fetched’ data breach claims
Equifax has attempted to kick out the mass lawsuits taken out against the firm following last year’s data breach by…
ICO takes no prisoners as complaints and fines rocket
The Information Commissioner’s Office has suggested it will leave no stone unturned in its fight against those companies which persist in flouting…
Uber hires two privacy chiefs in wake of mass breach
Uber is attempting to beef up its its data protection credentials following November’s mass data breach which affected over 64…
‘Woolly mammoth’ TSB is rocked by new online outage
TSB’s claims of being a challenger bank to the big four of Barclays, Lloyds, NatWest and HSBC, have taken yet…
Virgin Media in dock again as it cuts off ‘dead customer’
Virgin Media’s data governance has taken another body blow after a Teeside man had his subscription cancelled because the company…
Ticketmaster breach: ‘We’ve complied fully with GDPR’
As if paying through the nose for concert tickets is not bad enough, now 40,000 Ticketmaster customers are facing the…
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…
Dixons Carphone chief to treble data security budget
Dixons Carphone chief executive Alex Baldock has pledged to treble the group’s data security budget and insisted it is up…