The European Court of Justice has limited the reach of the privacy law known as “the right to be forgotten”. The court has ruled that the online right does not extend beyond the borders o...
read moreDeal or no deal? No, this is not a reference to the popular Noel Edmonds gameshow and there are no winners. In the event of a ‘no-deal’ Brexit, with no agreed arrangements covering data...
read moreMore than half a million British Airways data hack victims could be in line for pay-outs as the airline launches its own class action lawsuit. However, according to lawyers, the airline has b...
read moreCEO’s of some of America’s biggest data-using companies have urged U.S. lawmakers to implement a national data privacy law. The 51 executives say this will protect their businesses from s...
read moreIntimate personal health data is being shared with Facebook, according to a study from Privacy International (PI). PI studied a range of period-tracking apps to see exactly what info...
read moreA viral Chinese app that lets users swap their faces with film or TV characters has sparked a privacy row. Users provide a series of selfies in which they blink, move their mouths and mak...
read moreiCaaS, which stands for Compliance as a Service, forms part of the Data Support Agency Group. Using over £1.2 million in investment for research and development, iCaaS has created one...
read moreiPhone users have been “quietly” hacked by rogue websites, according to Google. The tech giant warned that hackers compromised iPhones after users simply visited certain affected websites...
read moreThe Swedish data protection agency (DPA) has issued the country's first GDPR fine, after a school was found improperly using facial recognition technology to monitor the attendance of its studen...
read moreUsernames, emails, first names and IP addresses have been breached at web hosting provider and internet domain company Hostinger International, affecting a possible 14 million customers. The...
read morePrivacy group Big Brother Watch (BBW) has warned that the use of facial recognition technology across public spaces is becoming more widespread. It was revealed recently that hundreds of thou...
read morePricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is the first of the “Big 4” to be fined under GDPR. The Greek Data Protection Authority (DPA) recently fined the audit group €150,000 for wrongly using “...
read moreThe GDPR, which went into effect in May 2018, is one of the most comprehensive data protection laws in the world. The CCPA’s impact is expected to be huge, given California’s status as the f...
read moreThe Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) have raised concerns over Facebook’s plans to launch their new digital currency, Libra. The UK’s data watchdog has joined forces with an inte...
read moreUniversity of Oxford-based researcher James Pavur contacted UK and US-based firms to test how they would handle a "right of access" request made in someone else's name. For the purposes of hi...
read moreWe are extremely excited to announce the launch of our new, innovative GDPR management software, iCaaS. This is now available as a free 14-day trial with pricing starting from only £9.99 a mont...
read moreLondon based educational software maker Pearson, has revealed that thousands of school and university accounts have been compromised due to a data breach. Users of the accounts, mostly in the...
read moreSky customers have been told to change their passwords after a possible data breach. Email The company has sent out emails to customers across the UK urging them to reset their passwords a...
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