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The Brexit whistleblower: ‘Did Vote Leave use me? Was I naive'

The Guardian Data Protection

Stuff that a series of investigations and news articles had forced him to start thinking about. I’ve just started piecing it together,” he said, in what was our first off-the-record conversation. All this stuff I didn’t realise at the time.” Was I just really naive?” Then later: “Do you think they just used me?”

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2019 end-of-year review part 2: July to December

IT Governance

The second half of the year began with major data privacy news: the UK’s data protection authority, the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office), announced its intention to fine British Airways and Marriott International a combined £282.6 Welcome to the second part of our round-up of 2019’s information security stories. million (£4.2

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Weekly podcast: Uber, Google, and City of York Council vs RapidSpike

IT Governance

According to the ICO, a “series of avoidable data security flaws” allowed attackers to download the personal details of around 2.7 It’s now been six months since the GDPR came into effect and there’s been precious little regulatory action under the new law – so far. Here are this week’s stories. Well, that’ll do for this week.

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One week into GDPR – what you need to know

Data Protection Report

Websites go dark, complaints are filed within an hour, European Commission suffers an embarrassing data leak, and the US Commerce Secretary warns about the unintended trade impact of the law – all in the first week of the GDPR. Other activists follow suit – complaints filed against Tech Companies.

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