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If you still think that privacy and data sharing isn't an issue, then take a look at this... The other day I was visiting a popular gaming website and up popped the the usual notice about use of cookies. Normally I would dismiss these without a second thought but I was on a tablet and accidently tapped on the link
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined Facebook GB£500,000 for data breaches relating to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. That's about US$650,000. The ICO's investigation into the activities of Facebook is highly critical of Facebook's laissez-faire approach to user's data. For seven years, Facebook failed to stop application developers taking users' information without informed consent, and allowed capture of the information
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has hit credit reference agency Equifax with a GB£500,000 fine for the 2017 data breach. Equivalent to US$660,000, the fine is the largest ever imposed by the ICO and is the maximum permitted under the legislation in force at the time. Under the newer GDPR laws, the fine could've been as high as $20
The UK's Information Commissioner today confirmed that Google breached UK's Data Protection Act when the Street View cars captured personal data while collecting wi-fi network information. As a result of this, Google will be required to sign an undertaking to take steps to ensure that breaches of the Act don't re-occur. Google will then be audited in nine month's time to
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office has issued a press release on Google's collection of WiFi data that was obtained by the StreetView cars as they drove round. In what appears to be a holding statement, the ICO says that it has reviewed samples of collected data at Google premises and confirms that the samples do not include any "meaningful personal details". Additionally, the