Tag: Information Commissioner’S Office
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Online printing site Doxzoo exposed thousands of customer files
Doxzoo proudly says on its website that your “documents are in safe hands.” But for some time, that wasn’t true. The …
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Privacy watchdog throws wider net to protect children online
Each day in the US, more than 3,000 15- to 18-year-olds attempt suicide. According to the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention …
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Facebook admits to Messenger Kids security hole
Facebook was red-faced this week after admitting to a loophole in its child-focused Messenger Kids system. The company was found …
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UK parliament calls for antitrust, data abuse probe of Facebook
A final report by a British parliamentary committee which spent months last year investigating online political disinformation makes very …
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Campaign tool supplied to UK’s governing party by Trump-Pence app dev quietly taken out of service — thanks to GDPR
An app that the UK’s governing party launched last year — for Conservative Party activists to gamify, ‘socialize’ and co-ordinate …
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UK data protection complaints more than double under new GDPR rules
The number of complaints filed with the UK data protection watchdog has more than doubled since the introduction of new European …
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Cryptojacking attack hits ~4,000 websites, including UK’s data watchdog
At first glance a CoinHive crypto miner being served by a website whose URL contains the string ‘ICO’ might not seem so strange. But …
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