data protection

Signal exposed Facebook’s data collection practices

The mechanism will replace the soon-to-be invalid EU standard contractual clauses

Data watchdog's chief Elizabeth Denham warns that it’s not good enough to claim ‘this is important, so trust us’

Coronavirus tracing company is at the heart of the exposure

Partitioning a single network can help relieve network congestion and increase security

Transport secretary Grant Shapps confirmed the plans ahead of the UK’s re-entry into international tourism

Leaked records contained data including full names, email addresses, phone numbers and mailing addresses

Portal offers self-service privacy management for customers

The video-sharing platform is accused of collecting personal data belonging to millions of children in Europe

Digital Rights Ireland is urging European Facebook users who have been affected to sign up

The regulator believes that Facebook may have infringed ‘one or more’ GDPR provisions following apparent leak of 533 million user records

The update breached the tech giant's rules about collecting and sharing location data

Despite GDPR coming into force businesses may still find themselves sanctioned under the 1998 act

City council says it's committed to handling data ethically and securely

It's currently unclear whether the data is fresh or part of a historic breach

The AAID is unique to all Android devices and can be shared with third parties for more effective targeted advertising

The regulator is investigating the data leak involving the personal details of 533 million users

The leaked records contained users' phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names and relationship status

Attackers reportedly accessed company source code

Names of event attendees were disclosed on the party's website just hours after it launched

Data includes names, passwords, emails, passport numbers, credit cards, financial transactions, and more

A look at the UK's national data laws and how GDPR fits into the puzzle