UK data protection and privacy advocacy group Privacy International has submitted complaints to European watchdogs suggesting GDPR violations at several US firms including Oracle, Equifax and Experian.
The UK’s Information Commissioners Office has referred an investigation into Facebook to the EU’s lead data protection watchdog over concerns about how the internet giant is tracking users.
The product designed by Google to take on Facebook appears to have suffered from a similar flaw in the way it allowed developers to access user data.
Today the European Court of Justice will make a decision which will impact the global digital economy. Does the European Union have the right to impose its own data protection and privacy standards on everyone else?
New data regulations may well define the economy and society over the next few decades, and they are still far from perfect. But before you get too critical, you have to realise just how complicated this thankless job can actually be.
More often than not we’re writing positively about Google, but the ‘do no evil’ company has been caught out tracking smartphone locations even if the user has opted out.
An Ajit Pai led FCC trampled all over Tom Wheeler’s net neutrality legacy, though a new filing from the Trump administration to the US Supreme Court is looking to crush the final remains into dust.
The Indian Government has released a paper to address the inadequacies in data protection and privacy legislation, proposing some ‘interesting’ exemptions, to leave the matrix open to abuse.
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has released its annual report for 2017/18 which hints the UK is starting to present the right attitudes to privacy and data protection.
Research commissioned by BSS vendor Openet found the Facebook data scandal has affected overall trust in digital service providers.
The very public investigations by Senator Ron Wyden of Oregan have seemingly forced US telcos to back out of location-sharing partnerships with data brokers as privacy policies of the world’s largest companies continues to be questioned.
Social networking giant Facebook has data sharing partnerships in place with Huawei and at least three other Chinese smartphone makers.
Research from Top10VPN.com indicates Brits are beginning to lose trust in social media after several sagas question the credibility of the platforms.
Ahead of the introduction of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the GSMA has highlighted the busybody bureaucrats should not get too excited with their favourite pastime of coating the industry with red-tape.
The UK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has got facial recognition software in her sights as the worrying trend of surveillance continues to gather steam.
Google its ‘right to be forgotten’ case against a UK businessman, a decision which could have notable implications in the digital economy.
The ICO has announced it is investigating 30 organizations, including Facebook, to understand how personal data and analytics can impact political campaigning and influence elections.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has opened up over the privacy scandal which has gripped the headlines over the last month, but don’t expect the social media giant to change that much.
Facebook is retracting its sticky fingers and scaling back its data collection machine, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg has revealed the company won’t be rolling stringent data protections rules out any further than required.
Facebook’s announcement that is has refreshed its privacy and transparency is a good step but the whole saga just shows the internet industry doesn’t care about you unless it has to.
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