Facebook finally agrees to pay the UK's £500k fine over voter profiling
Facebook and the UK's privacy watchdog settle a claim over Cambridge Analytica and the threat of voter profiling.
Facebook and the UK's privacy watchdog settle a claim over Cambridge Analytica and the threat of voter profiling.
Can a student willingly give consent to a school authority to process their biometric data?
Marriott Hotels faces the EU's second largest fine under its new data protection laws. It will challenge the fine.
British Airways could land a fine equal to 1.5 percent of its global revenues over a 2018 website hack.
The European Union’s tough privacy laws may have gathered momentum as they head into their second year, but one compliance specialist warns that the Australian government needs to take the initiative to motivate Australian companies that are still coming to grips with the legislation and don’t realise its potential impact on their businesses.
David Braue | 28 May | Read more
UK privacy watchdog challenges Facebook to drop appeal after Mark Zuckerberg's weekend call for more regulation of Internet companies.
Calls recorded from Sweden's 1177 health help call service were left unprotected on a server accessible from any browser.
The low number of fines relative to the volume of reported breaches might be due to over-extended regulators, according to DLA Piper findings.
Lucian Constantin | 07 Feb | Read more
Microsoft releases new tools to help security and compliance officers manage new privacy laws.
Swedish consumer group accuses Google of offering consumers too vague explanations.
Google gets served a massive fine for violating Europe's GDPR.
The UK hires an AI expert to help it decide how to investigate companies that have no idea how their algorithms may have breach data protection laws.
Tim Cook warns of that personal data collection has exploded into a data industrial complex.
European companies are struggling to meet their obligations to provide citizens with their personal data as required by new general data protection regulation (GDPR) rules, a survey of the legislation’s first full quarter of operation has revealed.
David Braue | 18 Sep | Read more
There’s nowhere left to hide. Now that the notifiable data breaches (NDB) scheme and EU general data protection regulation (GDPR) legislation are forcing companies to reveal the true extent of their data-security deficiencies, takeup of cyber insurance is surging as businesses weigh up the very real financial risk of non-compliance.
David Braue | 09 Jul | Read more