ICO warns supermarkets over Covid-19 data retention
Any thoughts supermarkets had of adding the data they have received on vulnerable patients to their own marketing databases have…
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EU data cop calls for single app to combat coronavirus
Brussels’ top data protection cop is calling on all members of the bloc to work together to develop a single…
BA and Marriott block £282m GDPR fines – yet again
The Information Commissioner’s Office has once again failed to deliver the GDPR killer blow to both British Airways and Marriott…
Hotel hell: Fresh Marriott data breach hits 5.2 million
Marriott International, the hotel giant which is awaiting its fate over a proposed £99m fine from the Information Commissioner’s Office over…
Regulator gives the green light for mobile data tracking
The Government has been given the green light to use mobile phone data in the fight against coronavirus after the…
Email gaffe leaks thousands of tenants’ sensitive data
The world might be in lockdown but some things never change; organisations are still playing being fast and loose with…
Google faces probe over ‘unlawful data free-for-all’
Privacy start-up Brave, a thorn in the side of tech giants since GDPR came into force, has filed a formal…
ICO pledges ‘light touch’ over coronavirus privacy fears
The Information Commissioner’s Office has vowed to cut firms some slack over the enforcement of data protection rules during the…
Employee data cock-ups rife as Virgin fall-out continues
It seems that Virgin Media is not alone in its staff data security gaffes, employee error – including downloading malware…
Virgin accused of covering up full extent of data breach
Virgin Media customers affected by last week’s data breach are being urged to use their powers under GDPR to find…