With the anniversary of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into force just months away, Google has been fined a record sum for major data breaches; and separate complaints have been made against Google and other high-profile tech giants around...
The crackdown on terrorism continues, with the European Commission turning its focus firmly on internet service providers (ISPs). The EC has announced proposed new legislation to ensure terrorist content online is removed within an hour of it being flagged up. The EC...
British Airways is the latest major company to suffer a major data breach which resulted in customers’ personal and financial details being stolen. In what was described as a “sophisticated” breach of its website, BA has been swift to assure that those affected will...
Facebook Data Breach: lessons for UK businesses Major breaches of data protection laws continue to hit the headlines, but none have been quite so high profile as the large-scale breaches involving Facebook. As expected, the Information Commissioner is now...
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is establishing a specialist data unit to boost its enforcement of digital tools and algorithms. This is expected to go live this summer. The CMA’s creation of a new technology team is against the backdrop of growing...
Large tech companies who breach UK data protection laws are being held to account as never before, with class actions now being brought by aggrieved consumers. The first data leak class action ever to take place in the UK (involving supermarket Morrisons) was...
