Outgoing UK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has suggested a shift in focus from individual cookie popups at each website to regulation of browsers and devices as the source of expressing user tracking preferences.
One of the largest GDPR fines to date, the UK ICO's decision found that the travel giant was negligent due to ‘poor security arrangements’ creating a hole that was exploited for two months.
UK ICO is investigating claims of employee surveillance that include using tracking software to determine when and for how long employees were away from their desks.
UK’s ICO is taking its investigation into adtech back up. The central focus is on RTB systems, one of the cornerstones of the targeted advertising industry.
Experian’s data broking department providing marketing analytics is in trouble with the UK ICO, requiring it to make major changes to its direct marketing services.
Google's Privacy Sandbox project has been touted as the end of tracking cookies and creepy cross-site following, but it is facing regulatory trouble as the UK ICO has expressed concerns about a collection of "loopholes" that could be used to personally identify and track internet users.
Students are responsible for most school data breaches in the U.K., usually involving compromised, leaked, or weak credentials, setting them up for a life of cybercrime.
The International Data Transfer Agreement tools are meant to reflect the changes made to the UK's own version of the GDPR, and could be available in late March.
UK law enforcement has shared over half a million compromised passwords found in cloud storage with Have I Been Pwned. The headline item is that over one-third of these passwords (about 225 million) have not been logged before.
UK's NCSC issued an alert over the growing risk of ransomware attacks as threat actors diversified attack vectors and monetization methods, with some victims hit by repeat attacks shortly after paying a ransom.
