Another one bites the dust: rogue chief gets 6-year ban
A company director who blatantly ignored warnings about his telemarketing activities to unleash a barrage of illegal automated calls to…
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TSB facing final bill of £230m from data transfer fiasco
TSB – recently dubbed the ‘Truly Shambolic Bank’ by MPs – could be facing a bill of nearly £230m for…
Revealed: The bungalow which spouts out nuisance calls
The latest scalp in the war against so-called nuisance calls has exposed the ease at which rogue directors can set…
GDPR two months on: Are you on road to compliance?
Two months have now passed since the marketing industry should have been GDPR-ready. Although the ICO didn’t set a hard…
Dixons Carphone fesses up that 10m were hit by breach
Dixons Carphone has been forced to admit that the mass data breach – which it claimed took place last year…
MPs demand crackdown on data industry over fake news
The data industry and social media firms should face tougher regulation to combat a growing crisis of data manipulation and…
Consumers ‘have to jump through hoops’ for ICO to act
Lodging a successful complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office is being made virtually impossible by the endless red tape which individuals…
The dam bursts: companies hit by flood of data requests
Claims that companies would be inundated with data deletion requests once GDPR came in to force might appear to have…
ICO takes no prisoners as complaints and fines rocket
The Information Commissioner’s Office has suggested it will leave no stone unturned in its fight against those companies which persist in flouting…
British Airways grounded as data privacy storm erupts
British Airways has been hit by a major privacy backlash after its social media team was found to be asking…