Here is a case of trust and privacy gone very wrong. I gave my DNA to tracking company – then it vanished – BBC News Who knows what will happen. Your Takeaway This story should make you think about the information you hold and the steps you take to keep …
Business data breaches leak customer data
If you collect any data – especially customer data containing personal or financial information – you need to keep it secure. Whether it is in house, on the cloud or on a web server, in storage or transit, is it time you carried out some due diligence to check things …
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Another police force suffers a data leak
The police forces of Norfolk and Suffolk have reported errors with the information they released in response to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests for crime statistics, processed between April 2021 and March 2022. You’re not seeing double – yet another UK copshop is confessing to a data leak – The …
Colchester City Council Hack
The Council has had to send out thousands of letter following being caught up in the security breach at Capita. Colchester City Council contacts 7,000 people after data hack – BBC News Capita is the largest outsourcing company in the country offering a wide range of services that businesses, organisations, …
Apple facing fines for privacy violations
The French data protection regulator wants to fine Apple €6 million for inconsistencies between the consent required between it own apps and third party apps. Explicit user consent was required for third party apps to track users but not for Apple apps and services. Apple deserves €6 million fine for …
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