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Think You Ticked All the Boxes for GDPR? Think Again.

It would be hard to have missed the introduction of GDPR earlier this year. A barrage of opt-in emai… Read More...
18/11/2018

Many firms still stuck in GDPR prep phase six months after its initiation

Six months after the GDPR compliance deadline, many companies are struggling to make data protection… Read More...
18/11/2018

Should police be allowed to forensically search mobiles?

A Police Scotland bid to use cyber kiosks to gather data from mobile devices has been delayed amid c… Read More...
18/11/2018

Launch of the online toolbox

Tony Porter launches his online toolbox, a collection of resources to help you comply with the surve… Read More...
16/11/2018

Microsoft under GDPR microscope for Office 365 and OneDrive

Dutch investigators believe Microsoft's cloud services are secretly harvesting user data. Dutch inve… Read More...
16/11/2018

Car crash data thief 'unlucky' to be jailed

A car repair worker has been sentenced to jail for stealing customers' personal data from his former… Read More...
14/11/2018

Oracle and Equifax among seven firms accused of ignoring GDPR

Privacy rights group Privacy International accuses seven companies of being "premised on exploiting … Read More...
11/11/2018

Security firm pays damages to anti-asbestos activists it spied on

K2 Intelligence admits hiring infiltrator to pass information to asbestos industry clients. A privat… Read More...
10/11/2018

Tim Cook blasts 'weaponisation' of personal data and praises GDPR

Apple chief executive Tim Cook has demanded a tough new US data protection law, in an unusual speech… Read More...
08/11/2018

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