Retail chiefs call for help from ICO to tackle shoplifting
Retail bosses are demanding more help from the Information Commissioner’s Office over what they can and cannot do with data…
data protection
Online firms face pincer attack on dodgy data tactics
Two of the UK’s leading regulators have issued a final warning to online businesses to “stop and desist” from using…
Electoral Commission breach ‘threat to us all’, says DMA
The DMA has issued a stark warning that the major data breach at the UK Electoral Commission – which could…
UK firms ‘leaving themselves wide open to bot attacks’
British business are putting both their customer data and reputations at risk, according to a new analysis which claims two-thirds…
Data reforms under fresh fire for favouring big business
Critics of the UK’s data reforms are not giving up without a fight, with fresh claims that the Data Protection…
UK relatively unscathed despite surge in data breaches
The UK’s cyber defences appear to be holding up better than most despite a major rise in data breaches around…
Meta dragged kicking and screaming into ad opt-out
Five years and countless hours of legal wrangling later, Meta has finally bowed to pressure to offer consumers an opt-in and…
Doorstep Dispensaree pays up for endless GDPR appeals
Doorstep Dispensaree, the company that had the dubious honour of being the first to be slapped with GDPR fine in…
Now ICO steps up consumer advice on data requests
The Information Commissioner’s Office is jumping on the “subject access request” bandwagon – set in motion by Nigel Farage’s bust-up…
UK firms forced to pay £3.2m as hackers go phishing
The average cost of a data breach for UK businesses is a whopping £3.2m, coming in at £128 a record,…