Data

Data privacy seems to be ‘coming of age’ to some extent and organisational responses to Covid-19 may be partly responsible, according to a report

New NCSC guidance helps people stay safe online when cyber criminals use information from data breaches to try and steal sensitive personal data.

Extension of Elizabeth Denham’s tenure as information commissioner will give the government more time to appoint her successor

The Conservative Party acted illegally in collecting data that inferred voters’ ethnicity and religious background, a Select Committee has heard

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252495385/Conservatives-broke-data-law-to-racially-profile-millions

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office was criticised for ending its investigation into alleged malpractice in advertising technology, but has now resumed its probe

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency is resisting extortion demands from a ransomware gang, but has suffered a data leak in retaliation

Data breaches have been a hot topic this year, as the Covid-19 pandemic has seen an increase in fraud and other cyber attacks across the board, for both consumers and businesses.

Malicious actors manipulated stolen Covid-19 data in a way clearly intended to damage public trust in vaccines, says the EMA

The Ministry of Defence reported more than five hundred data security incidents in 2019-20, with seven serious enough to warrant disclosure to the ICO

European regulators imposed almost €160m worth of fines during the past 12 months, a substantial rise