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…
Facebook and Google tighten grip on online ad market
Regulators around the world might at last have Google and Facebook in their sights but the duopoly’s grip on the…
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…
Digital ad duopoly has stifled the industry for too long
So, at last the UK Government is going to investigate the digital advertising sector, with Chancellor Philip Hammond announcing this…
Tech giants ‘must hand over customer data to rivals’
Major tech firms should be forced to open up their customer data to competitors in “open banking”-style reforms which would…
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…
‘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…
Germany goes to war with Facebook over data sharing
The German authorities have come down hard on Facebook after ordering the company to stop combining data collected from its…
Irish confirm seven GDPR probes as Facebook turns 15
Facebook’s 15th birthday celebrations have been somewhat marred by confirmation that the company is the subject of seven separate data…
H&M hands role to Cambridge Analytica whistleblower
H&M has enlisted the help of Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie – the man who lifted the lid on the…