GDPR compliance stutters as companies lose interest
Nearly 18 months after GDPR came into force, over half of UK firms have admitted they have yet to become…
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Second-party data market ‘explodes’ due to GDPR fears
Companies are increasingly turning to second-party data – customer information shared on a private basis – due to increased scrutiny…
Teletext sweats as two-year data breach is uncovered
Teletext Holidays bosses are likely to be getting hot under the collar after the firm became the latest to potentially breach GDPR,…
£100m Brexit blitz nightmare for direct mail industry
The Government’s £100m Get Ready for Brexit campaign, designed to unite the country ahead of the October 31 Halloween “Exit Day”,…
Tributes flood in for EU data ethics champion Buttarelli
The EU’s top data protection chief, Giovanni Buttarelli, a key architect of GDPR and one of the first to question…
Verizon faces GDPR probe as WhatsApp decision looms
Verizon Media, the company behind the Huffington Post, Yahoo and AOL, is facing a major GDPR investigation by the Irish…
Data breaches can hit mental health, legal firm claims
Data breach compensation lawyers Hayes Connor – one of two UK “ambulance chasing” legal firms wooing British Airways customers – has…
DMA jumps into bed with US software giant OneTrust
The DMA has signed a major commercial contract with OneTrust, the US privacy software giant valued at $1.3bn (£1.1bn), which…
Thank the Lord: Parish and town councils get GDPR aid
Parish and town councils GDPR fears have been eased following divine intervention from the Information Commissioner’s Office, which is launching…
Firms accused of handing out personal data willy-nilly
The so-called “right of access” under GDPR, which allows consumers to find out what information is being held on them,…