Tag: watchdog
UK watchdog eyeing PM Boris Johnson’s Facebook ads data grab
The online campaigning activities of the UK’s new prime minister, Boris Johnson, have already caught the eye of the country’s data protection watchdog. Responding...
Behavioural advertising is out of control, warns UK watchdog
The online behavioural advertising industry is illegally profiling internet users. That’s the damning assessment of the U.K.’s data protection regulator in an update report...
Privacy complaints received by tech giants’ favorite EU watchdog up more...
A report by the lead data watchdog for a large number of tech giants operating in Europe shows a significant increase in privacy complaints...
French data protection watchdog fines Uber $460,000 for data breach
One by one, European countries are slapping Uber with a penalty for the way it handled its 2016 data breach. Today, France’s data...
Italian consumer watchdog hands down €15M in fines to Apple and...
Italy’s Autorità garante della concorrenza e del mercato, roughly equivalent to this America’s FTC, has fined Apple and Samsung a total of $...
EU FARCE: Drug watchdog SNATCHED from London to lose 300 staff...
THE European Union’s drug watchdog is expecting to shed around 300 staff members when it relocates from London to Amsterdam after Brexit, which is...
UK watchdog orders Cambridge Analytica to give up data in US...
Another big development in the personal data misuse saga attached to the controversial Trump campaign-linked UK-based political consultancy, Cambridge Analytica — which could lead to...
Cambridge Analytica raided by UK data watchdog
The UK’s data watchdog, the ICO, finally obtained a warrant to enter and search the offices of Cambridge Analytica late Friday — carrying...
UK watchdog wants disclosure rules for political ads on social media
The UK’s data protection agency will push for increased transparency into how personal data flows between digital platforms to ensure people being targeted for...
Cryptojacking attack hits ~4,000 websites, including UK’s data watchdog
An attacker injected a crypto mining script into a web plugin’s JavaScript library, and some 4,000 websites — a large number of them taxpayer...
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