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Fresh GDPR Complaints Take Aim at Targeted Advertising
2018-09-13 09:48

Browser Upstart Alleges Ad Firms Are Seeing Too Much Personal DataA web browser startup, Brave, has filed complaints in Europe alleging behavioral advertising companies are violating Europe's...

Generally Disclosing Pretty Rapidly: GDPR strapped a jet engine on hacked British Airways
2018-09-12 07:27

Suddenly, corps in a rush to fess up to e-break-ins Analysis If Equifax's mother-of-all-security-disasters last year underlined one thing, it was that big companies think they can weather just...

How GDPR is Unintentionally Driving the Next Decade of Technology
2018-09-06 13:51

Companies, organizations and sometimes even government agencies have been careless with the personal information they have traditionally collected. In their defense, personally identifiable...

GDPR Spurs Interest in Insider Threat Prevention
2018-09-04 18:33

Tony Pepper of Egress Software Technologies on Breach Detection InnovationsThe EU's General Data Protection Regulation, which has tough breach notification requirements, is spurring global...

The Expected Spike in Post-GDPR Spam Activity Hasn't Happened
2018-08-29 19:07

For many months it was expected that privacy protections afforded to consumers by GDPR would also benefit the bad guys. read more

GDPR Effect: Data Protection Complaints Spike
2018-08-29 12:18

Individuals Report Organizations for Allegedly Failing to Secure Personal DataThree months after the EU's General Data Protection Regulation went into full effect, the U.K.'s data privacy watchdog...

None too chuffed with your A levels? Hey, why not bludgeon the exam boards with GDPR?
2018-08-28 10:22

UK data watchdog's teen tips on how to be more annoying Schools across the UK may have thought results fever was over for another year – but, thanks to the nation's privacy watchdog, they might...

That's the way the cookies crumble: Consent banners up 16% since GDPR
2018-08-21 08:18

While news sites cut cookies by 22% – but Google retains omnipresence IT consultants, software firms and campaigners spent months touting 25 May 2018 as the dawning of a new era – for better or...

You Should Still Care About GDPR
2018-08-06 17:54

GDPR Forces Companies to Examine How They Treat Data read more

Here's why UK and Irish businesses must prepare for a flood of GDPR data requests
2018-08-06 15:12

According to a SAS survey, 27% of UK and Irish consumers have already exercised their personal data rights under GDPR, and more are planning to.