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Data stolen included checklist for medics on how to get into vulnerable people's homes The UK's data protection watchdog is dishing out a £3.07 million ($3.95 million) fine to Advanced Computer...
The U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has opened an investigation into online platforms TikTok, Reddit, and Imgur to assess the steps they are taking to protect children between the...
Showbiz members' passport scans already plastered online A London talent agency has reported itself to the UK's data protection watchdog after the Rhysida ransomware crew last week claimed it had...
Also, Ascension notifies 5.6M victims, Krispy Kreme bandits come forward, LockBit 4.0 released, and more in brief Google has announced plans to allow its business customers to begin...
The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has confirmed that professional social networking platform LinkedIn has suspended processing users' data in the country to train its artificial...
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office has opened a consultation on "Consent or pay" business models. While the ICO studiously avoided naming any companies or organizations in particular, one of the most famous examples of the practice comes from Meta, which asked EU subscribers to choose between either paying to lose ads and allow data processing for advertising.
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The UK data watchdog has penalized five businesses it says collectively made 1.9 million cold calls to members of the public, illegally, as those people had opted out of being menaced at home by marketeers. Anyone registered with the Telephone Preference Service in the UK should not receive calls from organizations, unless they've expressly given consent.
UK's Information Commissioner's Office, together with eleven data protection and privacy authorities from around the world, have published a statement calling social media platforms to up their protections against data scrapers. Data scraping is the process of extracting large amounts of publicly available data from websites using automated tools such as bots, collecting information that users have published on that platform.
UK's Information Commissioner's Office, together with eleven data protection and privacy authorities from around the world, have published a statement calling social media platforms to up their protections against data scrapers. Data scraping is the process of extracting large amounts of publicly available data from websites using automated tools such as bots, collecting information that users have published on that platform.