A recent report by GDPRPLAN.com showed that UK consumers have been reporting data protection violation in droves this year, showing that the public’s awareness on privacy rights is growing. The report said that the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is now working on 24,319 cases, including non-data...
Uber is set to pay new fines for its 2016 data breach which compromised the personal data of millions around the world. UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) handed the ride-hailing giant a fine of 385,000 pounds ($490,760), while the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA), a 600,000...
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office recently announced that it had appointed its in-house expert Dr Ruben Binns as its first Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Binns will take the lead in researching the effects of artificial intelligence on privacy. He will also help...
The Information Commissioner’s Office said this week that for the first time, an individual will be handed a prison sentence for a case that it has prosecuted. The case involves a car repairman by the name of Mustafa Kasim who was found guilty of stealing accident...
Facebook has been penalized by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) £500,000 for its data breach scandal involving Cambridge Analytica. The ICO said that it had found that Facebook had allowed the "unfair" sharing of user data with developers without "clear and informed consent between 2007...
UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office has fined credit rating company Equifax a total of £500,000 for its data breach which had affected the personal data of around 15 million Britons. While the systems that were compromised in 2017 were US-based, the ICO ruled that Equifax’s UK branch...
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office revealed that it will be penalizing parenting website Emma’s Diary £140,000 for illegally sharing the data of around a million people to the Labour Party. The website for pregnant women was found to have sold the data under Lifecycle Marketing for...
UK privacy watchdog Big Brother Watch recently found that HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs) had collected the voice recordings of around 5.1 million citizens using its Voice ID service which was launched in January 2017. HMRC initially informed visitors that they would be able to...
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office ordered Cambridge Analytica this week to hand over the data it holds on a US academic David Carroll, threatening it with an unlimited fine for a criminal offence if it does not comply. According to data privacy activists, the move sets...
Andrea Jelinek, EU data protection authorities group head, announced last Thursday that the recent scandal involving Facebook and Cambridge Analytica has prompted them to form a Social Media Working Group which will be looking into cases of social media data harvesting. Jelinek added that apologies from...