DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JULY 12, 2018

The investigation remains ongoing but the Information Commissioner had committed to providing an update to the Department of Digital Culture Media and Sport (which is leading an inquiry into ‘fake news’) prior to the summer and details are also needed by overseas regulators to allow them to progress their own related investigations.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

In more light-hearted news, Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant unsettled users by randomly laughing , which, somewhat unsurprisingly, caused many Twitter users to draw comparisons with HAL 9000 refusing to open the pod bay doors in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The NIS Directive was enacted in the UK as the NIS Regulations on 10 May.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

million UK customers – including their names, email addresses and phone numbers – as well as the records of almost 82,000 UK-based Uber drivers from Uber’s Cloud servers. 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.

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The Guardian Data Protection

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

AggregateIQ, hired by Vote Leave in 2016, failed to ensure authorisation to disclose UK voter information The Canadian data firm AggregateIQ (AIQ) broke privacy laws with some of the work it did for a leading pro-Brexit group in Britain and a number of US political campaigns, according to a watchdog’s official report.

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IT Governance

JULY 13, 2018

This week, we discuss operational resilience in the banking and financial market infrastructures sectors, a data breach affecting Thomas Cook subsidiaries, London’s proposed new court building and the latest development in the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal. Here are this week’s stories. I hope you’re following.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JULY 10, 2018

Firm fined £500k for lack of transparency and failing to protect users’ information Facebook is to be fined £500,000, the maximum amount possible, for its part in the Cambridge Analytica scandal , the information commissioner has announced. Investigations in the UK remain live.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MAY 5, 2018

In landmark cross-border decision, Information Commissioner’s Office gives company 30 days to comply with David Carroll’s request Cambridge Analytica has been ordered to hand over all the data and personal information it has on an American voter, including details of where it got the data and what it did with it, or face a criminal prosecution.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MAY 19, 2018

MPs who want to question Cummings about the finances of his Vote Leave campaign are “grandstanding” fools spreading “fake news”. (A He may have trolled the whole country and changed the course of British history, but he’s still the man with an egg for a face, who screams everyone must be accountable for their actions – everyone except him.

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The Guardian Data Protection

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Today, Cambridge Analytica is a household name. But renewed controversy about the activities of the now defunct company demonstrates how our media and legislatures are still struggling to digest the full implications of the scandal.

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APRIL 5, 2018

Founder says he takes full responsibility for data breaches and will not ‘throw anyone else under the bus’ Mark Zuckerberg has rejected calls for heads to roll at Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, saying that he takes full responsibility.

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The Guardian Data Protection

APRIL 24, 2018

Exclusive: panel told researcher Aleksandr Kogan that Facebook’s approach fell ‘far below ethical expectations’ A Cambridge University ethics panel rejected research by the academic at the centre of the Facebook data harvesting scandal over the social network’s “deceptive” approach to its users privacy, newly released documents reveal.

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The Guardian Data Protection

APRIL 10, 2018

People who fear their information may have been used by Cambridge Analytica can go to a new help page Tell us how you’ve been affected by the Facebook data breach Facebook has started the process of notifying the approximately 87 million users whose data was harvested by the election consultancy Cambridge Analytica.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MARCH 20, 2018

The Cambridge Analytica revelations may be the final nudge we need to turn away from the social network. And it’s only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to big tech harvesting private information Sorry to break it to you, but you are probably a “dumb f**k”. This is according to statements by a young Mark Zuckerberg anyway.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MARCH 21, 2018

So it is with the tale of Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, and a saga that vividly highlights the awful mess that the biggest player in billions of online lives has turned into. Related: Cambridge Analytica may be guilty of hype.

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The Guardian Data Protection

APRIL 17, 2018

Former Cambridge Analytica employee gives evidence before parliamentary committee Far more than 87 million people may have had their Facebook data harvested by Cambridge Analytica, according to evidence from former employee Brittany Kaiser.

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Personal data Privacy 110

The Guardian Data Protection

MAY 6, 2018

Whistleblower Christopher Wylie explains the science behind Cambridge Analytica’s mission to transform surveys and Facebook data into a political messaging weapon • The six weeks that brought Cambridge Analytica down How do 87m records scraped from Facebook become an advertising campaign that could help swing an election?

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The Guardian Data Protection

MARCH 31, 2018

Documents released last week shed more light on the puzzle of the company’s links to Cambridge Analytica ‘Find Christopher Wylie.” That instruction – 13 months ago – came from the very first ex-Cambridge Analytica employee I met. It is published by Guardian News & Media and is editorially independent.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MARCH 24, 2018

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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The Guardian Data Protection

MARCH 18, 2018

From its stance on extremist content, to its vast caches of user data, Facebook is a corporation whose power must, finally, be reined in The revelation that Cambridge Analytica exploited the data of 50 million Facebook profiles to target American voters is indeed frightening.

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The Guardian Data Protection

APRIL 21, 2018

Former Cambridge Analytica director told MPs Brexit campaign group may have used data from Moneysupermarket Personal information gathered from price comparison websites may have been used without people’s knowledge or consent by pro-Brexit campaigners in the European referendum.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MARCH 19, 2018

Regulation of this practice is long overdue The Observer reported on Saturday that Cambridge Analytica acquired 50 million Facebook profiles from a researcher in 2014. Companies use our personal information to enrich themselves.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MARCH 29, 2018

are prompted by the enormous new European data protection regulation GDPR, and have been in the works since at least January. But they come at a good time for the company, whose head Tim Cook has been merrily capitalising on the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal , publicly rebuking Mark Zuckerberg over the social network’s business model.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JULY 11, 2018

ICO to fine baby club Emma’s Diary £140,000 for infraction before 2017 general election The Labour party bought data on more than 1 million new and expectant mothers and their children from a leading baby club ahead of the 2017 general election.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MARCH 22, 2018

Non-profit organisation behind Firefox browser announces move after Cambridge Analytica revelations Mozilla, which makes the popular Firefox web browser, has become the first major organisation to stop advertising on Facebook amid the controversy over the Cambridge Analytica files.

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The Guardian Data Protection

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

She described discovering that Facebook was inside the offices of defunct electioneering consultancy Cambridge Analytica while in the middle of an interview with Channel 4’s Jon Snow. Continue reading.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MAY 1, 2018

Parliament may formally call CEO to face Cambridge Analytica questions next time he is in UK MPs have threatened to issue Mark Zuckerberg with a formal summons to appear in front of parliament when he next enters the UK, unless he voluntarily agrees to answer questions about the activities of his social network and the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

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The Guardian Data Protection

APRIL 26, 2018

Executive apologises over Cambridge Analytica scandal as Tory MP accuses Facebook of bullying Facebook has been accused of being a “morality-free zone” that bullies journalists and threatens academics, as one of its executives appeared in front of MPs. Continue reading.

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The Guardian Data Protection

APRIL 4, 2018

Firm working on version of EU data protection law but Mark Zuckerberg stops short of confirming all changes will apply to US users Facebook is rolling out stronger privacy protections to users ahead of the introduction of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), but Mark Zuckerberg will not promise all future changes will apply to the company’s (..)

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The Guardian Data Protection

APRIL 14, 2018

An inquiry that his committee was already conducting into fake news is mushrooming into something far wider, attracting extraordinary levels of interest from across the world.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MARCH 28, 2018

Corporation suggests changes are response to Cambridge Analytica scandal, with EU set to toughen data protection rules in May Facebook is launching a range of new tools in an effort to “put people in more control over their privacy” in the buildup to new EU regulations that tighten up data protection.

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The Guardian Data Protection

APRIL 24, 2018

EU security commissioner says new regulations may have to be brought in if tech firms fail to tackle issues voluntarily Brussels may threaten social media companies with regulation unless they move urgently to tackle fake news and Cambridge Analytica-style use of personal data before the European elections in 2019.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 190 – News of the week appeared first on Security Affairs.

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The Guardian Data Protection

APRIL 23, 2019

Ads run by Lynton Crosby firm may have collected emails, says information commissioner A million Britons responded to a secretive Facebook campaign for a hard Brexit overseen by Lynton Crosby’s company, according to the information commissioner, who said the respondents’ email addresses may have been harvested for future use.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MARCH 20, 2018

Last week, David Carroll , an associate professor at Parsons School of Design in New York, filed a statement in the high court in London in support of a claim to recover his data and reveal its source, citing Cambridge Analytica and SCL Elections Ltd, described as its parent company.

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The Guardian Data Protection

APRIL 3, 2018

Facebook says ‘bug’ resulted in videos being kept, while CEO Mark Zuckerberg hits back at Apple chief Tim Cook’s ‘extremely glib’ attack Facebook continues to deal with the fallout of the Cambridge Analytica files , announcing policy changes and bug fixes aimed at undoing some of the company’s more controversial data collection features.

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The Guardian Data Protection

APRIL 15, 2018

Lords report stresses need for artificial intelligence to be used for the common good Britain needs to lead the way on artificial intelligence regulation, in order to prevent companies such as Cambridge Analytica setting precedents for dangerous and unethical use of the technology, the head of the House of Lords select committee on AI has warned.

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