Data Protection

Biz says 'technical error' caused short-lived leak affecting small number of users

Noyb says New York-based facial recognition biz flouted GDPR orders and kept scraping anyway

Opinion Socio political backdrop is not what it once was....

It’s amazing the number of calls Jo, Helen, and Ian get through

Big Brother Watch says a so-called BritCard could turn daily life into one long identity check – and warn that Whitehall can’t be trusted to run

Now you've gone and done it: Privacy lawyer says he's working on challenge to 2023 Data Protection Framework

Fun feature found in Debian 13: send your selected text to China – in plaintext

Updated Policy management not affected, but some personal data may have been snaffled

Nonprofit TTAM assures everything is BAU. Whether that makes customers feel better is another matter

Feds told they can't demand a haystack to find a needle

It was one of the offenders' final warning

Locally run, Euro-controlled, ‘legally independent,' and ready by the end of 2025

Greater Manchester Police reprimanded over hours of video that went AWOL

Watchdog wants to know whether EU posts were used without consent under GDPR

Government plans to boost efficiency with IT need to get people onside

Govt yearns to learn mistakes of serially breached record holders so it can, er, liberalize data sharing regs

ICO looking at what data is used to serve up recommendations

15GB of sensitive files traced back to former software biz

Company 'strongly disagrees' with law infringement allegations

Opinion Clear rules and guaranteed consequences concentrate the mind wonderfully. Just ask a Russian

Microsoft-owned social media for suits site gets €310M fine, told to get compliant

Yes, the law that needs to be harmonized with Europe for tech businesses' data to flow freely

As another government yet again seeks to reform UK GDPR, legislators say data must continue to flow

Biden's Executive Order finally getting its day in the sun, soonish

Governance and public consultation need work before rule change goes ahead

Managing the endless stream of cookie banners leaves little energy for anything else

Officers put in danger when republican dissidents grabbed hold of their names and details

NCA confirms arrest of 17-year-old 'on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences' – now bailed

Acquisition of SaaS backup vendor ends mega-merger moratorium

Selfie-scraper again claims European law does not apply to it

Updated Privacy blunder alert omits number of key details

Payment arm of Korean messaging app denies any illegal activity

Nearly 83,000 people had their data stolen amid chaos that struck NHS healthcare

Watchdog reprimand follows similar cases in 2021

A busy few days for security teams

Four years on and it's still paying for what California attorney general calls 'unacceptable' practice

Exclusive Health club chain headed for the spa on choose-a-password day

Confidential patient information found by member of the public

Updated Infosec house claims Ticketmaster, Santander hit via cloud storage

One tricky cluster is causing outrage among longstanding customers

Massive discount applied to save cop shop’s helicopter budget

When PoC code is released within a day of disclosure, it's only a matter of time before attacks kick off

NHS England's own survey also reveals suspicions that it would sell data to third parties

In theory, this should make it harder for states to compel data-sharing to enforce anti-abortion laws

Unverified users could scoop up data on high-value individuals without any form of verification process

LGBTQ+ dating app's maker previously denied selling sensitive user data

Meta insists it's just misunderstood and it's safe to talk to citizens over FB

Cloud cyber resilience model could raise $700M despite $278M losses

Comment Move could 'weaken' Brits' personal data rights when info is transferred outside Europe

'Problematic' carriers can look forward to scrutiny, fines, and new rules

First: Not being able buy a meat pie with a credit card. Now this

Zut alors! Department for registering and helping unemployed people broken into

Services slowly coming back online but providers still struggling

And does it count as consent?

Motor-mouth CEO Alex Karp claims biz stopped 'innumerable' terror attacks in Europe

2,000 employees at 38 facilities had data processed 'unlawfully', ICO says