Former Equifax executive sentenced for insider trading
A former Equifax tech chief who worked on the company’s breach notification website for last year’s mass hack attack has…
data protection
Just 2% of retailers have secure email marketing sites
The £366bn UK retail market is leaving its customers wide open to email fraud, with a new analysis showing that…
EU chief predicts first GDPR rulings before year-end
The head of data protection in Brussels has predicted that the first enforcement action against companies in breach of GDPR…
Heathrow blunders trigger data governance warning
Companies are being warned to ensure that data protection is given the highest priority in the boardroom following a catalogue…
Mass data leak sees Google+ go down the plughole
Google is to pull the plug on the consumer version of its Google+ social network after finally fessing that private…
DMA brings in top privacy lawyer to boost legal team
The DMA is beefing up its team by drafting in data privacy lawyer and former Canon legal counsel Asli Yildiz…
Bupa hit by £175,000 fine for mass insider data theft
Bupa Insurance Services has been whacked with a £175,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office for failing to have effective security…
EU chief calls for audit of Facebook’s data practices
The European Union is set to increase pressure on Facebook to come clean about its data practices after the chair…
ICO launches crackdown as firms fail to pay new fees
The Information Commissioner’s Office has begun formal enforcement action against 34 organisations that have failed to pay the new data…
Alchemetrics strikes ‘privacy by design’ partnership
Alchemetrics has joined forces with cloud-based, customer solutions technology specialist Transcend360 to create a new approach to privacy in the…