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…
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Man City plays to the crowd with face app to cut queues
Data privacy concerns might have put facial recognition software under close scrutiny from the regulators but, over at Manchester City…
ICO launches major probe into facial recognition tech
The Information Commissioner’s Office is embarking on a full-scale investigation into the use of facial recognition software in public places…
DMA jumps into bed with US software giant OneTrust
The DMA has signed a major commercial contract with OneTrust, the US privacy software giant valued at $1.3bn (£1.1bn), which…
Instagram axes ‘rogue’ ad partner after privacy probe
Facebook’s data governance has once again been called into question amid allegations that its Instagram division allowed a US start-up…
‘Teflon Facebook’ to recruit its first chief privacy officer
Facebook has once again reinforced its Teflon image among client marketers by posting a 28% year-on-year rise in ad revenues…
ICO funding pays off but fears grow over huge legal bills
Anyone still wondering why the Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham went cap in hand to the Treasury to plead for more…
Data marketing industry ‘put on notice to adapt or die’
Just 24 hours after the adtech sector was accused of systemic breaches of GDPR, the guns are now being turned…
Facebook risks fresh row over ‘cash for data’ scheme
Facebook is risking fresh controversy after relaunching an app which pays consumers to hand over data on how they use…
Germans unleash GDPR blitz on behavioural ad giants
Privacy campaigners are ratcheting up their war against online behavioural advertising platforms, which they claim are in breach of GDPR,…