ICO and Irish DPC ‘among the worst GDPR enforcers’
Fresh evidence has emerged as to why privacy groups have such a beef against the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office and…
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Deceptive data processing sparks biggest GDPR fines
Companies are far more likely to fall foul of GDPR for dodgy data processing than for any other issue, with…
BA slashed GDPR fine because ICO ‘had jumped the gun’
The real reason British Airways managed to batter down its proposed £183m GDPR fine to “just” £20m had less to…
GDPR fine calculator ‘makes Rubik’s Cube look simple’
Organisations which find themselves in breach of GDPR have finally been given the inside track on how the Information Commissioner’s…
Virgin Media has 4 weeks to settle breach case ‘or else’
Virgin Media has been given four weeks to admit liability for a major data breach, which left customers’ details freely…
Airbnb sleepwalks into breach of hosts’ personal data
Airbnb has become the latest holiday brand to suffer a major data breach after the company was forced to admit…
Dentists bare teeth against BDA in breach legal action
A group of British dentists are not waiting for the Information Commissioner’s Office to investigate a recent hack attack on their industry…
Will they never learn? Top travel websites ‘full of holes’
Many of the world’s biggest travel brands – who have already been pummelled to within an inch of their existence…
Instagram rocked by action over ‘illegal’ biometic data
Instagram might have escaped the data protection scandals of its Facebook parent so far but that looks all set to…
Capital One hit with $80m fine for mass data breach
Capital One is being forced to cough up an $80m (£61.4m) civil penalty over its 2019 data breach, which compromised…