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 today announced that it was fining Andrew Crossley of the now defunct ACS Law £1,000 for failing to keep secure sensitive personal information about 6,000 people. The Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, was particularly critical saying, "The security measures ACS Law had in place were barely fit for purpose in a person’s home environment, let alone
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office has published a pair of guides about holding personal information online. The first guide is a Code of Practice aimed at organisations, particularly, those that sell goods and services over the web and is to help them understand the data protection law and develop good practice. The second is for individuals and is Protecting Your