Technology

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 […]

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gives individuals the right to ask for their data to be deleted and organisations do have an obligation to do so, except in the following cases: the personal data your company/organisation holds is needed to exercise the right of freedom of expression; there is a legal obligation to keep that data; for reasons

A U.S. judge has ordered Facebook to turn over internal records regarding data privacy and access to user data. The directive is part of an ongoing Federal Trade Commission investigation into the social network’s privacy practices. The ruling in the state of Delaware involves an investor lawsuit seeking company records to investigate potential wrongdoing and