Facebook has agreed to pay a £500,000 fine issued by the UK’s data protection watchdog in light of the Cambridg…
ICO urges transparency over GOV.UK data plan
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has reminded the government of its responsibilities under privacy l…
The Met can’t say how many businesses received facial recognition images
London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has refused to rule out the possibility that more businesses have re…
As BA faces £183m fine, hundreds of businesses suffer card-skimming attacks
This week the Information Commissioner’s Office handed British Airways the biggest data protection fine in hist…
Why the tech giants want governments to regulate facial recognition
Use of facial recognition software in UK police trials has boosted the profile of one of its suppliers, NEC Corporati…
The NAO has missed an important point about citizen data
Today the National Audit Office has published a report on the challenges in using data across government. It criticis…
Government “failing” to make progress on data
Whitehall’s dependence on poor quality data has compromised policy programmes and contributed to major public s…
HMRC deletes five million unlawfully harvested voice records
HMRC has agreed to delete more than five million people’s voice records after the UK’s privacy watchdog r…
The FTC may force Facebook to set up an independent privacy committee
Facebook could be forced to set up a privacy oversight committee as part of its settlement with the US Federal Trade …
Fediverse’s ambitious plan to give people control over their data again
In the digital age, people’s information is being harvested for a variety of reasons: some good, but mostly for comme…