Data

As much of the advertising technology used by marketers to deliver personalised content online is deemed unlawful, there are signs regulation could actually be a win-win for both consumers and business – as long as the industry embraces change

https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/How-privacy-could-breathe-new-life-into-personalisation

Government Digital Service responds to allegations that personal data gathered through Gov.uk portal could be used to target political messaging to citizens

The Information Commissioner needs to provide specific guidance to law firms on how they can lawfully share personal data, a leading City law firm has argued.

The UN’s children’s agency has disclosed an inadvertent leak of personal data belonging to users of its online learning platform Agora

Over half of UK businesses do not yet appear to be fully GDPR-compliant, and many have de-prioritised their compliance efforts

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252470436/GDPR-non-compliance-worse-than-feared

We take a look at the biggest data breaches that have affected people in the UK

UCL European Institute – Brexit Insights

While you have been on your summer holidays, the ICO and other European Data Protection Authorities have been keeping busy. Large and small firms have been investigated and fined for having insecure data file transfer and storing systems in place, making unlawful marketing calls and having inadequate, or in some cases, no GDPR training programmes in place.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/associate-news/no-summer-holiday-for-european-data-protection-authorities

At first glance, August has been a quiet month for data breaches, with a total of 114,686,290 breached records. That’s about 10 percent of the monthly average coming into the month.

https://www.itgovernance.co.uk/blog/list-of-data-breaches-and-cyber-attacks-in-august-2019-114-6-million-records-leaked

Fingerprints, facial recognition and other personal information from Biostar 2 discovered on publicly accessible database

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/14/major-breach-found-in-biometrics-system-used-by-banks-uk-police-and-defence-firms?CMP=share_btn_tw