The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) have raised concerns over Facebook’s plans to launch their new digital currency, Libra. The UK’s data watchdog has joined forces with an international group of privacy authorities who want to know “how customers’ personal data will be processed in line with data protection laws”. The ICO has signed a joint
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University of Oxford-based researcher James Pavur contacted UK and US-based firms to test how they would handle a “right of access” request made in someone else’s name. For the purposes of his investigation, he asked each of them for all the data that they held on his fiancée, citing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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London based educational software maker Pearson, has revealed that thousands of school and university accounts have been compromised due to a data breach. Users of the accounts, mostly in the United States, have since been notified and the vulnerability has been rectified. According to the Wall Street Journal, the data breach happened in November 2018
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Sky customers have been told to change their passwords after a possible data breach. Email The company has sent out emails to customers across the UK urging them to reset their passwords as part of a “security measure”. Customers have been asked via email to choose a new password as Sky has had to change
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Cyber criminals have hacked popular food delivery app Deliveroo. The hackers have been breaking into customers’ accounts and ordering fast food without their permission. Accounts holders affected have been desperately trying to cancel the orders before the food is handed over to the hackers. Customers details were obtained by phishing emails and other hacks. The
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Personal student data has been stolen in a data breach at Lancaster University. The “sophisticated and malicious” cyber-attack was discovered last Friday and an incident team was set up to deal with it. The phishing attack gathered information including records and ID documents and officials at the University said that fraudulent invoices were sent to
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Popular messaging service Slack is to reset the user passwords for thousands of customers after a historic data breach. Around one percent of all Slack users are thought to be affected by the attack – equivalent to over 65,000 customers. Slack, which stands for the Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge, has more than
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The AI powered FaceApp has taken social media by storm over the past couple of days. Facebook, Twitter and Instagram feeds have been bombarded with altered photos of people, showing how they would look as an oldie by the selfie-editing app. Users can use one of the filters on the app to digitally ‘age’ their
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German schools have barred the use of cloud-based Microsoft Office 365 software following fears over data privacy. Schools in the state of Hesse have been told they can longer use it after the authorities ruled it was gathering information from users who were unable to give their consent. Under GDPR, the use of telemetry software
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American authorities have approved a $5 billion fine against Facebook over the sharing of data with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. The Justice Department is now expected to review and approve the settlement after the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) made its landmark decision. The motion was passed by a vote of 3-2, FTC’s decision broke party
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