Denham: ‘If you’re serious Zuckerberg, drop ICO appeal’
Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has called Mark Zuckerberg’s bluff, following his assertion that Facebook wants greater Internet regulation, insisting if…
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Critics pour scorn on Mark ‘I love GDPR’ Zuckerberg
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg, whose company is the subject of at least seven separate data protection investigations under GDPR by…
‘GDPR experts’ in the dock over dubious legal advice
Legal firms and self-styled “GDPR experts” are being warned they could face compensation claims if they are found to have…
The wheels come off for Vote Leave over illegal texts
Vote Leave might have got away with its controversial battle bus but, when it comes to illegal marketing, it has…
Facebook privacy scandal has been ‘a force for good’
Facebook might have escaped the Cambridge Analytica scandal with its profits – if not its reputation – intact but for…
Have companies done enough to comply with GDPR?
You visit a newspaper website. A window pops-up. You agree to share your data with every adtech partner present on…
Lords report calls for new crackdown on marketing data
Companies could be forced to publish an annual data transparency statement detailing the behavioural data they are purchasing from third…
DMA chief issues rallying cry for industry to change
The data and marketing industry faces a stark choice: does it want to be seen as a sector which uses…
‘Bully’ Facebook ‘deliberately broke data privacy laws’
Facebook intentionally and knowingly violated both data privacy and competition laws in order to maximise profits from user data and…
Watchdog collars Facebook over messenger merger plan
The Irish Data Protection Commissioner is demanding an “urgent briefing” from Facebook over its plans to merge WhatsApp, Instagram and…