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Popular video-sharing app TikTok is being investigated for possible data breaches over the handling of personal data. In particular, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is looking at how the personal data of the app’s young users is being managed and whether the safety of children on the social network is their main focus. Transparency Earlier […]
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A piece of data may be classed as personal data in the hands of one organisation but may not be classed as personal data in the hands of another. It all depends on what purpose the organisation is processing the data for. Therefore, it is important that the purpose for which the controller is using
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The Metropolitan Police Service have failed to respond to Subject Access Requests (SAR’s) for personal data quick enough, the ICO has revealed. The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued two enforcement notices to the Met Police after the regulator learned that backlog of over 1,700 requests for copies of data from UK citizens had been left
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Children will be put at risk if Facebook’s plans to encrypt its services go ahead, according to the NSPCC. Chief Executive Peter Wanless has warned that the social media giant is putting privacy and secrecy before accountability. Facebook has announced it will soon be using end-to-end encryption on its 1.3 billion-user Messenger service, meaning not
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Bitcoin is the internet’s version of money. These are pieces of unique digital money that can be transferred from one person to another. The coins are generated using an open-source computer program to solve complex math problems which is called mining. Each coin is defined by a public address and has its own fingerprint and
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Changing your password every so often is simply not enough now to protect your privacy and online security. Advances in technology mean that unless you are using something like a VPN (virtual private network), then your personal information is no longer safe from people who want to see what you’re up to. Privacy is a
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There has been a huge surge in Google searches about VPN’s, ever since the government announced plans to check ID’s for access to porn sites. The ban on instant access to well-known porn sites such as Pornhub has been slammed by campaigners who fear it’s a privacy nightmare. There are concerns that the age-verification system could
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A new device has been developed that can allegedly unlock and extract data from new hi-tech Smartphones and iPads. The new gizmo has been developed for the police and intelligent agencies by the Israeli forensic and data extraction firm Cellebright. It means that secretive agencies such as MI5 and the FBI will be able to
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The British intelligence agency MI5 been unlawfully retaining innocent people’s data for years. At a judicial review of the spy agency’s activities, lawyers for privacy watchdog group Liberty said that MI5 had acknowledged internally that data was being mishandled. The spy agency did not store data correctly and kept it for too long. The intelligence services have
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Microsoft has deleted a facial recognition training database with 10 million images of 100,000 people amid speculation that it could have allegedly breached GDPR laws. As privacy and ethical concerns continue to spiral with the increased use of facial recognition technology, the huge collection of images was pulled by the tech giant after an investigation
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