Android devices ‘sharing sensitive data, with no opt-out’
Android mobile phones are secretly collecting and sharing highly sensitive consumer data – including health, religious, dating and even web…
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Data reforms could lead to Govt meddling, ICO warns
Government plans to give the Secretary of State the power to approve or reject Information Commissioner’s Office codes of practice…
Telegraph caught with trousers down on data security
The Daily Telegraph’s recent attack on Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham’s reign, in which the newspaper claimed she had chased headlines…
Google DeepMind faces UK class action over health data
Google is facing yet another class action in the UK, this time over the controversial deal which saw its DeepMind…
ICO grovels over £6k ‘choco-gate’ Xmas gifts to staff
The mystery surrounding the Information Commissioner’s Office “choco-gate” scandal – triggered by revelations that an ICO corporate credit card had…
Local councils under fire over data accuracy failings
Just weeks after the first High Court action was launched over a company’s failure to keep accurate personal data, local…
Data security row comes back to haunt Nadine Dorries
Data protection experts have expressed serious concerns about this week’s appointment of Nadine Dorries as the tenth Culture Secretary in…
Top brands fingered and fined for being PECR wreckers
The Information Commissioner’s Office has sent out yet another warning to companies that it will leave no stone unturned in…
Privacy group slams ‘bonfire of rights’ in data reforms
The Government’s data protection reforms will not only strip UK consumers of most of their privacy rights, they will create…
Denham: ‘We need global accord on data protection’
Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham appears intent on making the most of the last few weeks of her reign in a…