Data

UK-based financial services companies compelled to share information about customers or staff with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) can do so without breaching UK data protection law, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has confirmed.

Data protection claim filed in London against social media giant for its alleged failure to give at least one million users in England and Wales meaningful control over their personal data

Damage from data breaches goes far beyond the impact to the target organisation – an obvious fact that is too often overlooked, says F-Secure

Investigators have unearthed 16,000 data records that seem to have been stolen in an attack on property firm Foxtons last year, but the organisation says it acted by the book in dealing with the incident

Norway’s data protection authority plans to apply a fine totalling 10% of LGBTQ+ dating app Grindr’s revenues over its data sharing practices

You can improve your cyber security by taking six actions:

• ·         Use a strong and separate password for your email
• ·         Create strong passwords using 3 random words
• ·         Save your passwords in your browser
• ·         Turn on two-factor authentication (2FA)
• ·         Update your devices
• ·         Back up your data

Data privacy seems to be ‘coming of age’ to some extent and organisational responses to Covid-19 may be partly responsible, according to a report

New NCSC guidance helps people stay safe online when cyber criminals use information from data breaches to try and steal sensitive personal data.

Extension of Elizabeth Denham’s tenure as information commissioner will give the government more time to appoint her successor

The Conservative Party acted illegally in collecting data that inferred voters’ ethnicity and religious background, a Select Committee has heard

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252495385/Conservatives-broke-data-law-to-racially-profile-millions