GDPR

Euro data watchdog has 'serious concerns' as to whether EU deals with Microsoft obey GDPR

Dutch agreement should be extended to entire bloc, says statement

Legal21 Oct 2019 | 11

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

GDPR...rrrse! Mass-mail fail as German biz asks UK resellers for consent to use their dealer data

What's the worst subject line for an email CC'd to world+dog?

Bootnotes28 Aug 2019 | 32

Talk about unintended consequences: GDPR is an identity thief's dream ticket to Europeans' data

Black Hat Revenge plan morphs into data leak discovery

Security09 Aug 2019 | 138

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

Estate agent dodges GDPR-sized bullet after exposing 18,610 folks' data for two years

Fined £80,000 under Data Protection Act – could have been a lot more under new EU rules

Legal19 Jul 2019 | 7

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

Reports of cyber attacks fall, says UK.gov survey: GDPR? Fewer nasties? More targeted attacks? We just don't know

'Cyber stuff is still happening and some businesses are taking it more seriously'

Security04 Jul 2019 | 8

Own goal: $280,000 GDPR fine for soccer app that snooped on fans' phone mics to snare pub telly pirates

La Liga says privacy watchdog is Barca-ing up the wrong tree

Personal Tech12 Jun 2019 | 50

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

Do Not Track is back in the US Senate. And this time it means business. As in, fining businesses that stalk you online

Analysis Republican Senator preps proposed legislation ahead of hearing

Personal Tech20 May 2019 | 44

IT bod who does a bit of everything: You might want to specialise if that pay rise proves elusive

Tech salaries up almost 2 per cent in 2018

On-Prem07 May 2019 | 34

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

Turn me up some: Smart speaker outfit Sonos blasted in complaint to UK privacy watchdog

Tech lawyer argues that 'give us all your data or your kit gets it' doesn't count as valid consent

Legal10 Apr 2019 | 54

I know what EU did last summer: Official use of Microsoft wares to be probed over slurp fears

Spectre of GDPR continues to haunt the halls of Redmond

Legal08 Apr 2019 | 16

Fortune favours the Brave: Privacy browser chap takes gripes over adtech body's website to Irish data watchdog

Prepare to scale the cookie wall

Legal03 Apr 2019 | 36

Tough cookies: MEPs call for EU websites to be scrubbed of trackers

It's not a great look for the home of GDPR, y'know

Legal28 Mar 2019 | 21

Max Schrems schreds another 'blockade' to challenging Facebook data transfers in Austria

Antisocial network: They gotta go to a DPA, man. Normal ppl can't sue us! Vienna court: I think you'll find...

Legal25 Mar 2019 | 15

Pre-checked cookie boxes don't count as valid consent, says adviser to top EU court

You can't assume active participation from someone who didn't untick something

Legal22 Mar 2019 | 53

Year 1 of GDPR: Over 200,000 cases reported, firms fined €56 meeelli... Oh, that's mostly Google

2019 just a transition year, says French watchdog

Legal14 Mar 2019 | 27

ICO, forgive me – it has been three weeks since I discovered my breach

Businesses slow to detect, report data leaks pre-GDPR

Legal11 Mar 2019 | 12

Is this the way the cookie wall crumbles? Dutch data watchdog says nee to take-it-or-leave-it consent

Stern words to sites that deny access if users reject trackers

Legal08 Mar 2019 | 47

US legal eagle: Well done, you bought privacy compliance tools. Doesn't mean you comply with anything

From California state regs to Europe's GDPR: It's all just a 'veneer of protection'

Legal25 Feb 2019 | 27

What's in a name? Quite a bit when it's the most hated abbreviation of 2018 (GDPR, of course)

Marketing biz decides 'GD PR' was getting it noticed in all the wrong ways

Legal20 Feb 2019 | 38

Unearthed emails could be smoking gun in epic GDPR battle: Google, adtech giants 'know they break Euro privacy law'

As ICO goes on fact-finding missions over 'concerns' about security, transparency

Security20 Feb 2019 | 64

Housing biz made to pay £1.5k for sticking fingers in its ears when served a subject access request

If someone asks for their data, you give it to them, scolds ICO

Security08 Feb 2019 | 32

Ad-tech industry: GDPR complaint is like holding road builders to account for traffic violations

Privacy advocates: You're not road builders, you're the traffic authority

Legal31 Jan 2019 | 42

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

Just keep slurping: HMRC adds two million taxpayers' voices to biometric database

But thousands opting out in 'backlash', says privacy group

Security25 Jan 2019 | 21

Colour us shocked: Google in €50m GDPR fine appeal bombshell

Didn't see that coming

Security24 Jan 2019 | 45

Struggling with GDPR compliance? Don't waste money on legal advice: Buy a shredder

Oh, and this visitor book. How about a £60 cardboard bin?

Bootnotes22 Jan 2019 | 46

French data watchdog dishes out largest GDPR fine yet: Google ordered to hand over €50m

CNIL brands ad personalisation consent invalid, slams lack of transparency

On-Prem21 Jan 2019 | 108

Say GDP-aaaRrrgh, streamers: Max Schrems is coming for you, Netflix and Amazon

Updated Apple and others also in firing line as complaints filed

Legal18 Jan 2019 | 27

GDPR: Four letters that put fear into firms' hearts in 2018

Data protection has never had a higher profile

Legal26 Dec 2018 | 36

Domain name 'admin' role eyed up as latest victim of Whois system's GDPRmeggdon

Plus anonymous email and all personal info to be redacted

Legal27 Nov 2018 | 46

'Cuddly' German chat app slacking on hashing given a good whacking under GDPR: €20k fine

PLAIN TEXT passwords showed up on file-hosting site

Security23 Nov 2018 | 39

Microsoft menaced with GDPR mega-fines in Europe for 'large scale and covert' gathering of people's info via Office

Telemetry data slurp broke the law, Dutch govt eggheads say

Software16 Nov 2018 | 141

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean hackers won't nuke your employer into the ground tomorrow

Black Hat survey on infosec's darkest fears

Security14 Nov 2018 | 20

GDPR USA? 'A year ago, hell no ... More people are open to it now' – House Rep says EU-like law may be mulled

Mega-hacks nudge Congress to consider privacy standard

Security08 Nov 2018 | 53

US draft bill moots locking up execs who lie about privacy violations

Don't want to consent? Law would allow firms to charge for access to products, services

Legal05 Nov 2018 | 48

GDPR stands for Google Doing Positively, Regardless. Webpage trackers down in Europe – except Big G's

Wait.... this wasn't in the script

Personal Tech12 Oct 2018 | 24

Workplace services-flinger Sodexo pulls Engage website after division hit by malware smackdown

UK information commish is investigating

Security10 Oct 2018 | 9

Sendgrid blurts out OWN customers' email addresses with no help from hackers

Along came some spiders and saw the unsubscribers...

Security04 Oct 2018 | 15

Sneaky phone apps just about obey the law, still have no trouble guzzling your data, says Which?

Probe shines light on epic Ts&Cs and clever tactics to make users cough up

Applications26 Sep 2018 | 19

Aggregate this: NewsNow has spilt a bunch of 'encrypted' passwords

Updated But no one will take the trouble to decipher them, right?

Security25 Sep 2018 | 1

Brexit campaigner AggregateIQ challenges UK's first GDPR notice

Canadian biz faces massive fine for allegedly exploiting personal info from Facebook

Personal Tech24 Sep 2018 | 70

Generally Disclosing Pretty Rapidly: GDPR strapped a jet engine on hacked British Airways

Analysis Suddenly, corps in a rush to fess up to e-break-ins

Security12 Sep 2018 | 51

Law firm seeking leak victims to launch £500m suit at British Airways

Prosecutors rub their hands with glee

Security11 Sep 2018 | 29

Europe's GDPR, Whois shakeup was supposed to trigger spam tsunami – so, er, where is it?

Updated No catastrophe after hardline privacy rules kick in

Networks29 Aug 2018 | 25

Campaigners call for immigration exemption in UK's Data Protection Act to be scrapped

Judicial review into law launched

Legal28 Aug 2018 | 7

None too chuffed with your A levels? Hey, why not bludgeon the exam boards with GDPR?

UK data watchdog's teen tips on how to be more annoying

Security28 Aug 2018 | 46

Chap asks Facebook for data on his web activity, Facebook says no, now watchdog's on the case

Info collected on folk outside the social network 'not readily accessible'

Security24 Aug 2018 | 143

ETSI crypto-based access control standards land

Need GDPR compliance now? Ask us how!

Security22 Aug 2018 | 7

Connected car data handover headache: There's no quick fix... and it's NOT just Land Rovers

Who has the keys to your car?

Security21 Aug 2018 | 132

That's the way the cookies crumble: Consent banners up 16% since GDPR

While news sites cut cookies by 22% – but Google retains omnipresence

Security21 Aug 2018 | 36

Internet overseer continues wall-punching legal campaign

ICANN appeals its appeal and tells German courts yet again that they're wrong

Legal21 Aug 2018 | 49