ICO data watchdog starts cookie crackdown
Websites which do not comply with new red tape on collecting cookie data from online customers will be contacted within weeks by the Information Commissioner’s…
Chip and pin credit card weakness exposed by Cambridge researchers
Chip and pin credit card payment machines could effectively be cloned by exploiting a security flaw claim researchers.Credit cards were found to be open to…
EU threatens personal health data security
Doctors leaders warn that changes to EU data protection rules could put existing patient confidentiality safeguards at risk.EC (European Commission) draft proposals on the processing…
Data breaches numbers increases by 10 times
Data breaches in the UK have increased ten fold in the past five years- figures from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) reveal.In local government the…
Google faces record fine over data snooping
Google has agreed to pay £14.4 million ($22.5 million) to the US Federal Trade Commission after monitoring web surfers using Apple’s Safari browser who had…
Google lied to UK Data watchdog over personal data agreement
Google has admitted that it had not deleted users’ personal data gathered during surveys for its Street View service.The data should have been wiped almost…
Google hired former ICO data official
It has emerged that Google UK’s privacy policy manager held a senior role at the UK’s data privacy watchdog during the time of its original…
Spam and online marketing complaints rise by 43% in UK
Complaints about spam and other unsolicited electronic marketing in the UK jumped 43% last year warns the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).The ICO says it received…
UK has wrong focus on cybercrime
The UK Government should focus more funds on policing the internet and less on anti virus software and snopping according to new research.Computer scientists at…
Proposed UK snoopers’ charter faces severe criticism
Civil liberty groups and ISPs have voiced severe criticism over the newly published Data Communications bill aka snoopers’ charter. The controversial bill extends the type…