Brussels told to get a move on with ePrivacy overhaul
The lack of progress over the EU ePrivacy Regulation is leading to the continued abuse of consumers’ most sensitive data,…
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Privacy group urges ICO to spank King’s Cross developer
Big Brother Watch has called on the Information Commissioner’s Office to throw the book at the King’s Cross Central development…
Facebook privacy update is ‘just a regulatory sweetener’
Facebook’s latest privacy overhaul – in which it has vowed to let users stop it from tracking them when they…
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…
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…