ICO website under siege from 40 online threats a day
The Information Commissioner’s Office website – the only official resource for tens of thousands of companies looking for advice on…
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Another one bites the dust: TPS abuser gets 5-year ban
Company director Jonathon De Sousa, whose business Xternal Property Renovations was found to have bombarded more than 110,000 people with…
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…
Man City plays to the crowd with face app to cut queues
Data privacy concerns might have put facial recognition software under close scrutiny from the regulators but, over at Manchester City…
ICO launches major probe into facial recognition tech
The Information Commissioner’s Office is embarking on a full-scale investigation into the use of facial recognition software in public places…
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…
DMA fights off competition to retain £5m TPS contract
The DMA has retained the account to run the Telephone Preference Service and Corporate TPS – worth a tidy £5m…
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,…