Facebook fines pile up as Italians and Germans wade in
Germany has become the second EU country in as many days to whack Facebook with a fine for dodgy governance,…
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Marketers braced for fresh crackdown on online data
Marketers are facing a major new threat to how they gather online data, amid fears that so-called “implied consent” for cookies…
Gay dating app Jack’d slapped with $240,000 payout
Gay dating app Jack’d has been forced to cough up $240,000 (£189,000) in compensation after it exposed users’ private intimate…
Uproar as data rogue pays back £1 despite £1.4m haul
A rogue company director, who trousered an estimated £1.4m fortune from flogging illegal data and who left debts of over…
Met farce fuels data access request warning to brands
Companies are being warned to ensure they comply with subject access requests within the one month time-frame or face a…
ICO urged to act now on adtech or be seen as soft touch
The Information Commissioner’s Office has been warned by industry experts that it risks being seen as “all mouth, no trousers”…
Data marketing industry ‘put on notice to adapt or die’
Just 24 hours after the adtech sector was accused of systemic breaches of GDPR, the guns are now being turned…
ICO: online ad industry ‘leaving millions at risk of harm’
The online ad industry’s “immature” understanding of data protection is triggering the mass unlawful use of consumer data for real-time…
Brussels plots GDPR ad blitz…this time it might mean it
The European Commission has once again pledged to launch a major EU-wide marketing and advertising campaign to boost awareness of…
ICO fingered for breaching GDPR over cookie cock-up
The Information Commissioner’s Office has been forced to give itself a bollocking after admitting that its own website cookies are…