GDPR four years on: €1.6bn in fines but issues remain
It is fair to say that data protection has moved on immeasurably since GDPR came into force on May 25…
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Under siege: Marketers’ favourite password is ‘123456’
The media and marketing industry is one of the most breached sectors in the world, and even the most senior…
Clearview AI gets £7.5m fine; is facial recognition dead?
The future of facial recognition technology has been thrown into disarray after the Information Commissioner’s Office has fined Clearview AI…
TikTok data breach class action dropped over cost fears
TikTok has managed to swerve a potentially damaging High Court data protection class action after former children’s commissioner for England…
Ticketmaster drops GDPR appeal and pays £1.25m fine
Ticketmaster has finally caved in to the Information Commissioner’s Office ruling that it was in breach of GDPR, pulling out…
Apple slices up data brokers as privacy war escalates
Apple is ramping up its attack on the data broker industry in a global ad campaign designed to show how…
App-ocalypse Now: Marketers losing sleep and money
The new era of data protection, which has seen Apple enforce advertising identifier (IDFA) changes and Google get ready to…
Marketers still won’t go to ethics, despite potential hit
Customer satisfaction is now seen by marketers as their number one priority but they are only willing to go so…
Adtech war goes global with ‘staggering’ breach exposé
Privacy campaigners’ war on real-time bidding – the engine room of the adtech industry – has been ratcheted up to…
‘In limbo’ industry demands full details of data reforms
The DMA is demanding the urgent publication of the Government’s planned reforms of data protection laws, claiming the data-driven marketing…