Holiday hell: Booking hub exposes 10 million customers
A hotel booking platform used by Hotels.com, Booking.com and Expedia has exposed the personal information of over 10 million hotel…
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Uproar as ICO axes adtech probe into Google and IAB
The Information Commissioner’s Office is facing a new threat of legal action following the decision to scrap its investigation into…
Now Salesforce and Oracle face UK privacy class action
Salesforce and Oracle are set to join Facebook, easyJet, TalkTalk, Virgin Media and Google and be summoned to the High…
Marriott hammers down GDPR fine from £99m to £18m
The Information Commissioner’s Office has finally settled its legal dispute with Marriott International over its proposed GDPR fine of £99m,…
ICO and Irish DPC ‘among the worst GDPR enforcers’
Fresh evidence has emerged as to why privacy groups have such a beef against the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office and…
Deceptive data processing sparks biggest GDPR fines
Companies are far more likely to fall foul of GDPR for dodgy data processing than for any other issue, with…
Experian lawyers set for long battle against ICO ruling
Experian is threatening a lengthy legal battle over an order that forces the firm to make fundamental changes to how…
BA slashed GDPR fine because ICO ‘had jumped the gun’
The real reason British Airways managed to batter down its proposed £183m GDPR fine to “just” £20m had less to…
Govt-backed Covid app hit by SamCam marketing gaffe
A Covid-19 tracking app, backed by Government funding and King’s College London, has been forced to issue a grovelling apology…
GDPR fine calculator ‘makes Rubik’s Cube look simple’
Organisations which find themselves in breach of GDPR have finally been given the inside track on how the Information Commissioner’s…