Uber hires two privacy chiefs in wake of mass breach
Uber is attempting to beef up its its data protection credentials following November’s mass data breach which affected over 64…
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Child sex abuse inquiry fined £200,000 for data misuse
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has been fined £200,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office after a catalogue of…
Only a fifth of UK companies are compliant with GDPR
It seems that repeated warnings from the ICO, press hysteria or even the widespread scaremongering over GDPR have not shaken…
Industry mounts fightback over GDPR direct mail jitters
Senior figures in the marketing industry are urging clients to wake up to the power of direct mail following Royal…
‘Teflon’ Facebook sees ad spend rise by nearly 50%
Consumers may be worried about Facebook’s data governance but predictions that the Cambridge Analytica data scandal would trigger a mass defection…
Major UK data firms under scrutiny as watchdog bites
Some of the UK’s leading data companies, including CACI, Experian, Equifax, TransUnion (formerly Callcredit) and Data8, are among those firms…
Denham under fire over ‘unchallenged’ Facebook fine
Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has been castigated for announcing that her office intends to fine Facebook £500,000 over the misuse…
‘Woolly mammoth’ TSB is rocked by new online outage
TSB’s claims of being a challenger bank to the big four of Barclays, Lloyds, NatWest and HSBC, have taken yet…
Emma’s Diary first broker to be fingered in ICO probe
Emma’s Diary, the brand set up 25 years ago to target expectant and new mums, has become the first list…
Welsh firm gets battered for 270,000 illegal texts
Another week, another company falls foul of the overworked but unrelenting Information Commissioner’s Office, with the latest business to join…