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Marketing company Epsilon Data Management has agreed a $150m settlement with the United States’ Department of Justice (DoJ) to resolve a criminal charge for selling data on more than 30 million Americans to...

Traditional data protection is sinking under the perfect storm of constant data change, accelerating data speed, and surging data volume—and the customer backlash is rising. Seven out of ten global consumers are...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) says a server it was using to handle recent credit licence applications was breached by a hacker. “While the investigation is ongoing, it appears that there...

The Council of Europe has published “guidelines” to avoid what it terms significant risks to privacy and data protection posed by the increasing use of facial recognition technology. The human rights organisation...

Social network provider Facebook will open up targeting information for more than 1.3m social issue, electoral and political ads to researchers from 1 February. Privacy will be protected, says product manager Sarah...

Danish Data Protection Agency Datatilsynet has launched an investigation into Medicals Nordic’s now-ended use of a WhatsApp group for staff to deal with information about people who have tested positive for...

As part of our Data Privacy Day coverage, we’ve compiled our most popular content from the last year into the following Top 10 lists. Top 10 Articles 1. Almost half of WhatsApp usage breaches legal terms Read...

A malware botnet that was used by cybercriminals to infiltrate thousands of companies and millions of computers worldwide has been taken down in an international operation. The operation, which was co-ordinated by...

Norway’s data protection authority has notified gay dating app Grindr that it intends to impose a financial penalty of NOK100 M ($11.7m, €9.65m) on the company for breaching consent requirements under the General...

As we mark international Data Privacy Day, we feature reader comments on the importance of privacy and security and the key themes affecting the sector. Simon Marchand, Chief Fraud Prevention Officer,  Nuance: “Data...

A unique global research project to track privacy employee culture, attitudes and behaviour has been unveiled today to mark Data Privacy Day. The Global Privacy Culture Survey, developed by Privacy Culture, seeks to...

A UK thinktank has called for fraud to be considered a national security priority backed by a new public-private strategy. The Royal United Services Institute in a report out today warned that fraud, including...

California’s Consumer Protection Act in many ways looks like the General Data Protection Regulation, but there are some significant differences. Darren Wray provides a handy guide to understanding how the two pieces...

More than 4,000 false Canadian government websites and email addresses taking advantage of the pandemic to try to mine personal data or steal money have reportedly been removed by the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security...

A US district court judge has dismissed a case against Marriott following a cybersecurity breach affecting around 5.2 million of the luxury hotel chain’s customers. The class action arose from employees of a Marriott...

President Joe Biden has designated attorney Rebecca Kelly Slaughter as acting chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), following the resignation of chair Joseph Simons. The post traditionally changes hands when a...

Data stolen from an environmental regulator in Scotland in a cyberattack has now been published online. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) earlier this month revealed at least 4,000 files containing 1.2GB...