Commons ‘wasted £100,000 on faulty GDPR training’
The House of Commons has been accused of wasting nearly £100,000 of taxpayers’ money on GDPR training for MPs and…
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Crisis? What crisis? GDPR fuels more potent marketing
Predictions that GDPR would ravage through the marketing industry like a plague of locusts have been blown out of the…
Dixons Carphone and the £400m data breach question
Dixons Carphone could find itself in a whole lot of bother following the data breach which exposed 6 million customers’…
GDPR is far too tough on SMEs claims Facebook nemesis
Small businesses have won a powerful ally in their battle against the worst excesses of GDPR, with the man whose…
Lib Dems come clean to ICO over breach of voter data
The Liberal Democrats are believed to be the first political party to report themselves to the Information Commissioner’s Office since…
Brands leaving customers in a rut due to cracks in data
Despite the widespread take-up of data analytics to improve marketing, companies are leaving customers in their own “digital shadows”, serving…
‘Idiotic’ Which? urges the public to give out fake data
Self-proclaimed consumer champion Which? has been branded “irresponsible and idiotic” for urging consumers to set up fake email addresses and…
TSB crisis deepens as bank sends ‘data breach’ mailshot
TSB’s latest advertising campaign – in which it accuses rival banks of being lazy and taking their customers for granted…
How to build up consumer trust in the age of GDPR
Data-driven marketing has always required a level of responsibility when it comes to handling consumer data, but GDPR has now…
Privacy International probes ‘hidden’ Acxiom practices
Only weeks after being rocked by the loss of a lucrative third-party data contract with Facebook, Acxiom is facing further…