The sharing of personal data between EU member states and the UK is vital for business supply chains to function and public authorities to deliver effective public services. Personal data wil...
read moreMore than 4,000 porn stars have had highly sensitive private information exposed online by an adult website. Cyber security researchers vpnMentor, a VPN comparison site, claim they found an o...
read morePoint-of-sale computers in Currys PC World and Dixons Travel shops suffered a cyber-attack affecting 14million customers. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), imposed the maximum £...
read moreForeign currency trader Travelex has fallen victim to a cyber-attack from a ransomware gang called Sodinokibi. The criminals behind the hack told the BBC they are demanding $6m (£4.6m) or co...
read moreDoorstep Dispensaree, based in Edgware, north London has been fined a whopping £275,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for “cavalier” disposal of records about vulnerable ...
read moreAs we start 2020, what does the year ahead mean for GDPR and what are likely to be the key issues? GDPR Awareness Training and Cybersecurity will be the hot topics businesses will be talking ...
read moreAs 2019 draws to a close, it’s time to take a look at what has happened with the GDPR over the past twelve months. On May 25th this year, we celebrated the first anniversary of the implemen...
read moreBuilding contractors Balfour Beatty tasked with refurbishing the MI6 building in London have been fired after losing the floor plans for the spy headquarters. The plans were said to have cont...
read moreThe home and work addresses of hundreds of celebrities, politicians and emergency service workers have been posted online in a huge Cabinet Office blunder. The government has since apologised...
read moreScottish entrepreneur Nicola Hartland found a gap in the GDPR market and has since built a very successful business.Hartland discovered that there wasn’t a company offering a quick and easy so...
read moreWHEN Nicola Hartland is asked about her line of work, she’s usually met with rolled eyes. GDPR is not the sexiest of topics but it’s certainly the buzz word of the moment in the business ...
read moreCharities reported 108 data breaches to the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) for the second quarter of 2019/20. Latest figures show that this figure – although high – is actually...
read moreDid you know that most data breaches in the UK are down to human error? A staggering 88% are not caused by hackers but rather they are mistakes that could easily be avoided with proper train...
read more“He’s making a list, “He’s checking it twice, “He’s gonna find out who’s naughty or nice, “Santa Claus is in contravention of Article 4 of the Ge...
read moreUK estate agents have been told they must get their data collection in order following a controversial German law case The National Association of Estate Agents has now told its members to re...
read moreA major data breach has leaked the texts and usernames of more than 100 million Americans. According to vpnMentor, a company that ranks virtual private networks (VPN), the database of a compa...
read moreFor the second time in two years, smartphone maker OnePlus has been the victim of a cyberattack. Hackers accessed thousands of OnePlus customer data through a vulnerability in the v...
read moreA new report by Amnesty International claims that Facebook and Google’s surveillance poses an unprecedented danger to human rights. The group has now called for the core business model of b...
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