Casual dating giant spanked over shoddy data practices
One of the world’s biggest online dating companies – which manages 35,000 dating sites for clients including London Evening Standard,…
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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…
‘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…
ICO data analytics probe ‘the biggest ever undertaken’
The Information Commissioner’s Office has claimed its probe into the use of data analytics for political purposes is the largest…
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…
European Commission claims it is exempt from GDPR
Brussels mandarins have raised more than a few eyebrows after claiming that the European Commission does not have to adhere…
God wades in as GDPR hits church service traditions
Parish councils might have avoided the worst excesses of GDPR but the Church of England might soon be forced to…
One day until GDPR D-Day: ‘Daily Mail helped charities’
The Daily Mail’s stream of exposés about rogue fundraising practices actually did the charity sector a huge favour by forcing…
Data Protection Act passed, just hours before deadline
The UK has become only the eighth EU member state to pass legislation which will bring GDPR into domestic law,…