Data Protection

Final guidance on Schrems II ruling: Data from EU could be held up if a third country lets authorities access it

We're looking at you, Uncle Sam

Legal21 Jun 2021 | 14

Law prof: New Chinese data regulations make it 'very hard for foreign firms to comply'

Fines for sending 'core' and 'important' info overseas, although what qualifies remains undefined

Legal14 Jun 2021 | 14

'Vast majority of people' are onside with a data grab they know next to nothing about, reckons UK health secretary

Comment A day before THAT delay, Matt Hancock told MPs that 'citizens' own the data he'd instructed the health department to take by default

Databases09 Jun 2021 | 86

UK government bows to pressure, agrees to delay NHS Digital grabbing the data of England's GP patients

What's that? Letting people know just weeks before was a bad idea?

Databases08 Jun 2021 | 64

BMA and Royal College of GPs refuse to endorse NHS Digital's data grab from surgeries in England

BMA separately calls for a delay to the programme

Databases04 Jun 2021 | 50

European Parliament's data adequacy objection: Doubts cast on UK's commitment to privacy protection

Comment Plus: Judgment in immigration exemption case makes things worse

Security03 Jun 2021 | 60

NHS GP data grab: Royal College of General Practitioners urges health body to communicate better

We've kind of got a lot going on right now with vaccinating etc... maybe you could do the comms bit, huh?

Databases01 Jun 2021 | 16

Mammoth grab of GP patient data in the UK set to benefit private-sector market access as rules remain unchanged

No policy shakeup to deal with snatch of info from primary physicians

Security17 May 2021 | 39

Oops, says Manchester City Council after thousands of number plates exposed in parking ticket spreadsheet

Exclusive They are personal data, you know. Wait – you did know that, right?

Security13 May 2021 | 82

East London council blurts thousands of residents' email addresses in To field blunder

'Was a Mailchimp sub too hard?!' asks Reg reader

Security05 May 2021 | 26

Dutch watchdog fines Booking.com €475k after it kept customer data thefts quiet for more than 3 weeks

Thousands of people's personal information purloined after UAE hotels compromised

Security01 Apr 2021 | 23

Thousands of taxpayers' personal details potentially exposed online through councils' debt-chasing texts

Exclusive Got a link? Change the last character and bingo, it's blackmail time

Security23 Mar 2021 | 70

Nurserycam horror show: 'Secure' daycare video monitoring product beamed DVR admin creds to all users

Updated Company has a habit of reacting badly to vuln disclosures

Security18 Feb 2021 | 52

Can we exhale yet? EU set to rule UK 'adequate' for data sharing in post-Brexit GDPR move

Decision would mean less complicated situation for Blighty's digital economy

Legal15 Feb 2021 | 32

Labour Party urges UK data watchdog to update its Code of Employment Practices to tackle workplace snooping

Key doc hasn't been updated since 2018, warn politicos and trade union

Security19 Jan 2021 | 14

Channel Isles cop sacked after abusing police database to track down women drivers for Instagram 'comic' page

Community service for creepy constable

Security07 Dec 2020 | 48

Brit Conservative Party used 10 million people's names to derive their country of origin, ethnicity and religion according to ICO report

Bought 'estimated onomastic data' tagged onto data of millions of Brit voters

Security12 Nov 2020 | 43

Google Safari Workaround case inspires campaign to sue Facebook in UK's High Court over Cambridge Analytica app

'Facebook You Owe Us' wants to run a not-quite-class-action-style lawsuit

Security29 Oct 2020 | 14

MP promises to grill UK.gov over revelations that Uber handed '2,000 pieces' of user data to London cops a year

Where are the search warrants for this? asks ex-Brexit Secretary

Security21 Sep 2020 | 35

How do you solve a problem like Privacy Shield? US and EU policymakers kick off discussions

First Safe Harbor gone, now its replacement... Schrems the breaks!

On-Prem14 Aug 2020 | 51

Congrats, First American Title Insurance, you've made technology history. For all the wrong reasons

Insurer is first biz to be charged in New York for data security negligence after exposing millions of records to the web

Security23 Jul 2020 | 20

Privacy Shield binned after EU court rules transatlantic data protection arrangements 'inadequate'

The spice data must flow (and it will – just through SCCs)

Security16 Jul 2020 | 73

ProtonMail-run website boasting 'complete guide' to GDPR left credential-baring .git repo exposed online

Ooo, double irony!

Security29 Apr 2020 | 2

UK.gov is not sharing Brits' medical data among different agencies... but it's having a jolly good think about it

Ministry of Fun under pressure to admit it's going to happen

Security09 Mar 2020 | 29

Back up a minute: Private equity outfit coughs $5bn for Veeam

Moving to America after being swallowed by Insight Partners, which already chucked $500m at it last year

Storage09 Jan 2020 | 26

I'm still not that Gary, says US email mixup bloke who hasn't even seen Dartford Crossing

Nor is he called Andrew, but he's still getting messages about Dart Charge

Personal Tech12 Nov 2019 | 199

Pack your pyjamas, Zuck: US bill threatens execs with prison for data failures

Senator Ron Wyden's on the warpath with 'Mind Your Own Business Act'

Legal18 Oct 2019 | 57

Seriously, this sh!t again? 24m medical records, 700m+ scan pics casually left online

Whole pile of US data just sitting there with no security

Security17 Sep 2019 | 29

GDP-arrrrrrgggghhh! A no-deal Brexit: So what are you going to do with all that lovely data?

Feature What we know, plus potential ways to make that data flow

Legal05 Sep 2019 | 115

Data cops order Ireland to delete 3.2m records after ID card wheeze ruled to be 'unlawful'

Splash one for GDPR

Legal16 Aug 2019 | 58

US insurers face SEC probe over web-access bungle that exposed 'up to 885 million' files

But it claims just 32 people had 'non-public' info disclosed. Eh?

Security13 Aug 2019 | 18

Marketing biz bares folks' data in the act of asking for their GDPR comms preferences

Sprint Education plugged digit-diddling URL snafu quickly

Security22 Jul 2019 | 10

Marriott's got 99 million problems and the ICO's one: Starwood hack mega-fine looms over

Technically not yet A Thing but there's a war of words over it

Security09 Jul 2019 | 28

Medway Council reforms eforms to stop blurting out residents' details

Digital project had gaping holes. On the bright side, here's Craig David all over your *boink*

Security08 Jul 2019 | 11

UK privacy watchdog threatens British Airways with 747-sized fine for massive personal data blurt

Half a million records lost? £183m GDPR fine lined up

Security08 Jul 2019 | 115

King's College London breached GDPR by sharing list of activist students with cops

Uni apologises for barring students on royal visit and 'fesses up to ICO

Legal05 Jul 2019 | 103

Italian data protector makes Facebook an offer it might want to refuse: A €1m fine for Cambridge Analytica data leak

Claims more than 200k Italians had data harvested after just 57 downloaded app

Personal Tech28 Jun 2019 | 12

Stop us if you've heard this one: US government staff wildly oblivious to basic computer, info security safeguards

Now for deep-diving Congress hearings... LMAO JK JK they will do nothing

Security26 Jun 2019 | 33

Blighty's online pr0n gatekeepers are begging for a regulatory beating, says digital rights org

Age verification needs a firm hand, sector warns

Legal17 Jun 2019 | 97

Irish data cops are shoving a probe right into Google's ads

Updated Doubleclick complaint alleges Chocolate Factory's data handling breaches GDPR

Legal22 May 2019 | 47

Microsoft sends partners hundreds of unwanted OPI: Other People's Invoices

Risky business: Azure cloud rains bills

OSes17 May 2019 | 15

IT bod flings £1m sueball at Met Police for wrongly listing him as a convicted fraudster

London cops claim he's got his databases mixed up

Legal15 May 2019 | 26

Spending watchdog: UK.gov must say who will prop up Verify from March 2020. C'mon, you've had six months!

Who will rid us of this costly mess? Um, the private sector, mumbles Cabinet Office

Legal08 May 2019 | 14

UK taxman falls foul of GDPR, agrees to wipe 5 million voice recordings used to make biometric IDs

Yes, yes, yes, we've told the ICO we are doing so, says HMRC

Security03 May 2019 | 39

Facebook: Yeah, we hoovered up 1.5 million email address books without permission. But it was an accident!

So that's all OK then

Security18 Apr 2019 | 104

Six foot blunder: UK funeral firm fined for fallacious phone calls

Updated ICO slaps £80k penalty on biz that bothered opted-out peeps

Legal16 Apr 2019 | 29

But we hired a consultant, cries UK pensions biz as it swallows £40k fine for 2 million spam emails

A legal boffin also gave us some useless advice, moans Grove Pensions

Legal26 Mar 2019 | 39

Q. What do you call an IT admin for 20-plus young children? A. A teacher

Usenix Engima It doesn't help that we try to give kids grown-up protections, like memorizing long passphrases

Security29 Jan 2019 | 45

Gripe to UK, Ireland, Poland: Ad tech industry inhales, then 'leaks' sensitive info on our health, politics, religion

Regulators asked to tackle 'systemic' GDPR breaches

Legal28 Jan 2019 | 24

Data flows in a no-deal Brexit are a 'significant' concern – MPs

UK.gov warned businesses are not prepared for 'burdensome' contract changes

Legal28 Jan 2019 | 80

UK.gov told: If you want public to trust surveillance cam strategy, throw money and manpower at it

Commish laments 'illogical' limitation on code compliance

Legal24 Jan 2019 | 10

Campaigners get go-ahead to challenge exemption UK gave itself over immigrants' data

Sueball lobbed at Brit government over Data Protection Act

Legal17 Jan 2019 | 11

Just for EU, just for EU, just for EU: Forget about enforcing Right To Be Forgotten outside member states

Top court receives advice paraphrasing M People*

Legal10 Jan 2019 | 48

Cambridge Analytica sister firm pleads guilty, fined £21k for failing to obey UK information commish

Data regulator notches up another successful prosecution

Systems09 Jan 2019 | 18

Um, I'm not that Gary, American man tells Ryanair after being sent other Gary's flight itinerary

Airline told me it can't fix fat-fingered email confusion, says NJ bloke

Security03 Jan 2019 | 168

Privacy, security fears about ID cards? UK.gov's digital bod has one simple solution: 'Get over it'

Yeah, how about you work for us...

Security10 Dec 2018 | 187