Facebook axes tons of apps, but claims most were safe
Over 18 months after the Cambridge Analytics scandal first broke, triggering numerous investigations on both sides of the Atlantic, fines…
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GDPR compliance stutters as companies lose interest
Nearly 18 months after GDPR came into force, over half of UK firms have admitted they have yet to become…
Facebook urged to come clean over fresh data breach
Pressure is mounting on Facebook to “tell all” over yet another mass data breach – which it is claimed has exposed…
Third-party cock-up triggers Yves Rocher data breach
Cosmetics and beauty giant Yves Rocher – which axed its UK website earlier this year – has been hit by…
Teletext sweats as two-year data breach is uncovered
Teletext Holidays bosses are likely to be getting hot under the collar after the firm became the latest to potentially breach GDPR,…
Not quite so ‘Priceless’: Data leak affects Mastercard
Mastercard has joined the growing list of high-profile brands which have been hit by a data breach after the credit…
Jailed millionaire data thief is forced to pay back the lot
A man who was jailed for stealing financial data on tens of thousands of people through a sustained campaign of…
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…
Teen ‘hacker-for-hire’ slapped with 20-month jail term
A teenager from Norwich has been banged up for 20 months after offering his services as a “hacker-for-hire” and supplying…
What’s best, zero party, first party or third party data?
Earlier this summer, Google announced it would be updating Chrome to provide users with more transparency about how sites are…