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.
UK privacy watchdog challenges Facebook to drop appeal after Mark Zuckerberg's weekend call for more regulation of Internet companies.
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.
A hefty fine for personal details in video that could be spread via a screenshot.
While there is a general consensus that the Knightscope security robot in Washington, D.C., committed suicide on Monday, the same everyone-agrees-opinion is not true for the $7.4 million heist of the cryptocurrency Ether that happened on the same day.
British ISP TalkTalk has received a record £400,000 (USD $510,000) fine for a breach that exposed personal data of over 155,000 customers.
A study of Android mobile applications found that many popular apps fail to take even basic precautions to protect users' data. Despite this, some were arguing that it's not as dangerous as it seems to provide payment card information to many online services.
David Braue | 16 Sep | Read more
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined the British Pregnancy Advice Service (BPAS) £200,000 for data protection failings that led to its website being hacked and personal information on thousands of people exposed.
Anh Nguyen | 08 Mar | Read more
The government is considering larger fines for breaches of the Data Protection Act.
Antony Savvas | 08 Mar | Read more
‘Guccifer', the prank hacker who made a name embarrassing the rich and famous with audacious attacks on their personal online accounts, has reportedly been arrested by Romanian police.
John E Dunn | 24 Jan | Read more
A former manager of a GP surgery has pleaded guilty to charges of unlawfully obtaining personal data using the doctors' patient records program.
Anh Nguyen | 04 Dec | Read more
The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead has been ordered to review its data protection policies after restricted details of employees were accidentally posted to an organisation-wide intranet.
Matthew Finnegan | 27 Nov | Read more
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined North East Lincolnshire Council £80,000 after it lost an unencrypted memory stick containing sensitive details of hundreds of children.
Anh Nguyen | 29 Oct | Read more
A Barclays Bank employee has received a fine of £3,360 for illegally accessing customer data.
Matthew Finnegan | 27 Sep | Read more
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) was forced to bring in the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after it managed to lose 32,000 document pages and 81 audio tapes and electronic media which formed part of a case.
Antony Savvas | 09 Aug | Read more