Teletext sweats as two-year data breach is uncovered
Teletext Holidays bosses are likely to be getting hot under the collar after the firm became the latest to potentially breach GDPR,…
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£100m Brexit blitz nightmare for direct mail industry
The Government’s £100m Get Ready for Brexit campaign, designed to unite the country ahead of the October 31 Halloween “Exit Day”,…
Not quite so ‘Priceless’: Data leak affects Mastercard
Mastercard has joined the growing list of high-profile brands which have been hit by a data breach after the credit…
ICO website under siege from 40 online threats a day
The Information Commissioner’s Office website – the only official resource for tens of thousands of companies looking for advice on…
Tributes flood in for EU data ethics champion Buttarelli
The EU’s top data protection chief, Giovanni Buttarelli, a key architect of GDPR and one of the first to question…
Facebook privacy update is ‘just a regulatory sweetener’
Facebook’s latest privacy overhaul – in which it has vowed to let users stop it from tracking them when they…
Verizon faces GDPR probe as WhatsApp decision looms
Verizon Media, the company behind the Huffington Post, Yahoo and AOL, is facing a major GDPR investigation by the Irish…
Data breaches can hit mental health, legal firm claims
Data breach compensation lawyers Hayes Connor – one of two UK “ambulance chasing” legal firms wooing British Airways customers – has…
Man City plays to the crowd with face app to cut queues
Data privacy concerns might have put facial recognition software under close scrutiny from the regulators but, over at Manchester City…
ICO launches major probe into facial recognition tech
The Information Commissioner’s Office is embarking on a full-scale investigation into the use of facial recognition software in public places…