Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered Labour’s first Budget in 14 years, announcing £40bn of tax rises, Central London Alliance comments
Information watchdog will investigate outgoing Grant Thornton CEO’s leaked performance review October 18, 2018 The Information Commissioner has said it will look into a leaked performance review of Grant Thornton’s outgoing chief executive. The review of Sacha Romanovitch, the first female leader of a big City accountancy firm, was sent to newspapers by a group claiming to represent several Grant Thornton partners. Read more: Grant Thornton chief executive set [...]
Irish regulator to probe Alphabet’s Google+ data leak October 9, 2018 Ireland's Data Protection Office today said it will seek answers from Google over the data leak from its failed social media platform Google+, which could have exposed the profile information of at least 500,000 users. Google said last night it was shutting down Google+ for consumers, after it discovered and patched the bug back in [...]
Heathrow fined £120,000 for leaving security staff’s personal data on an unencrypted memory stick October 8, 2018 Heathrow must pay a £120,000 fine after an employee lost a memory stick containing dozens of staff’s personal details. The details of up to 50 security personnel, and 10 people’s names, dates of birth and passport numbers, were exposed on the memory stick, which was found by a member of the public. Read more: Heathrow [...]
Irish regulator to investigate Facebook over data breach with an expected fine of up to $1.6bn October 2, 2018 The Irish Data Protection Office has opened a probe into Facebook over last week's cyber attack, which saw more than 90m accounts potentially affected. Ireland's data regulator will launch the case against Facebook under General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), as it confirmed that less than 10 per cent of the users affected were inside the [...]
Conservative Party conference app flaw exposes phone numbers of MPs September 29, 2018 Boris Johnson and Sajid Javid's mobile phone numbers were among those revealed online yesterday due to major a security flaw in the Conservative party's conference app which allowed people to log into the accounts of MPs and journalists attending the event. Dawn Foster, a journalist, revealed an issue with the app on Twitter which lets attendees easily get into [...]
Bupa fined £175,000 after employee puts customers’ data up for sale on dark web September 28, 2018 Health firm Bupa has been fined £175,000 after an employee was able to access thousands of patients' files to sell on the dark web. Data watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said Bupa did not have effective security in place to stop the employee, who extracted personal information from 547,000 customers. The employee was able to [...]
Equifax fined maximum £500,000 for data breach affecting 145m people September 20, 2018 Credit rating agency Equifax has received the maximum possible fine of £500,000 for a data breach affecting up to 15m Brits. UK data protection regulator the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said the penalty reflected its opinion that the US giant “has no excuse” for failing to follow its own internal policies and the law, [...]
Equifax fined maximum £500,000 for data breach affecting 145m people September 20, 2018 Credit rating agency Equifax has received the maximum possible fine of £500,000 for a data breach affecting up to 15m Brits. UK data protection regulator the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said the penalty reflected its opinion that the US giant “has no excuse” for failing to follow its own internal policies and the law, [...]
New powers that could see cold call firms fined up to £500,000 come into force September 8, 2018 Companies cold-calling customers without their consent could be fined £500,000 from today as new measures come into force. Previously consumers had to opt-out of receiving calls by registering with the free Telephone Preference Service or withdraw their consent during the call. But the new powers will put the onus on the callers to make sure [...]
Man jailed for life over terror plan to murder Theresa May September 1, 2018 A man who plotted to murder the Prime Minister and bomb Downing Street has been jailed for life. Naa'imur Rahman, 20, of North London will serve a minimum term of 30 years in prison after he was found guilty of planning to detonate a homemade device in Westminster and use the chaos to assassinate Theresa May. Rahman's [...]