The Swedish data protection agency (DPA) has issued the country’s first GDPR fine, after a school was found improperly using facial recognition technology to monitor the attendance of its students. The Swedish watchdog fined the school in Skellefteå, which is in the north of Sweden, 200,000 Swedish Krona (£16,800) for flouting privacy laws. Interestingly, the […]
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Usernames, emails, first names and IP addresses have been breached at web hosting provider and internet domain company Hostinger International, affecting a possible 14 million customers. The company said it has reset user passwords as a “precautionary measure” after it detected unauthorised access to a database containing sensitive information. Hackers breached its internal system API
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Privacy group Big Brother Watch (BBW) has warned that the use of facial recognition technology across public spaces is becoming more widespread. It was revealed recently that hundreds of thousands of visitors to the King’s Cross area of London were being covertly scanned. Public spaces including museums and shopping centres are rife with the technology
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PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is the first of the “Big 4” to be fined under GDPR. The Greek Data Protection Authority (DPA) recently fined the audit group €150,000 for wrongly using “consent” as a basis for processing personal data on staff. The DPA have now given PwC three months to implement corrective measures and comply with GDPR.
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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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