Regulators approach Conservative party over General Election marketing campaign June 23, 2017 Regulators are approaching the Conservative Party following accusations that it broke the law during the General Election campaign. An investigation by Channel 4 claimed the party used communication firm Blue Telecoms to conduct marketing work from a Neath call centre ahead of the election on 8 June. Read more: Bank of England chief economist: Withdraw [...]
Rampant ransomware raises risk of data breach sanctions under GDPR June 7, 2017 A ransomware infection would be considered a data breach under the terms of the new data protection regulation that comes into force next year, cybersecurity and legal experts say. Ransomware encrypts the data on an infected machine, and criminals demand payment from the owner to release the information. Ransomware is one of the fastest-spreading forms [...]
Elizabeth Denham, information commissioner (ICO), says that with one year to go, UK firms have no time to waste in preparing for GDPR May 25, 2017 The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the biggest change to data protection law in a generation. While it builds on the previous legislation, it brings a 21st century approach to the processing of personal data, providing much more protection for consumers, and more privacy considerations for organisations. And with just one year to go [...]
One year until The EU General Data Protection Regulation: The business world speaks out about the biggest ever overhaul of data legislation May 25, 2017 Exactly one year from today, “the most lobbied piece of legislation in history” – the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – will be enacted, radically overhauling the relationship businesses have with personal data through a raft of new obligations and consumer rights. The way firms collect, store, process and protect the personal information of [...]
Small businesses owed over £40bn in late payments, as Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn slams larger firms for not playing fair April 11, 2017 More than half (52 per cent) of Britain’s smallest businesses are owed £44.6bn in late payments between them, research out today warns, just as Jeremy Corbyn has vowed to declare “war” on larger firms who make late payments to their suppliers. The survey by Zurich of more than 1,000 small-and-medium sized business owners discovered more [...]
WhatsApp end-to-end encryption “completely unacceptable” warns home secretary Amber Rudd March 26, 2017 Home secretary Amber Rudd has called end-to-end encryption on messaging services such as WhatsApp and iMessage “completely unacceptable” in the wake of the terrorist attack on Parliament. “There should be no place for terrorists to hide,” she said, speaking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, responding to reports that the attacker Khalid Masood used the [...]
Westminster terror attack: This is the latest update from the Metropolitan police March 24, 2017 The Metropolitan Police gave Londoners more information this morning on the ongoing investigation into the attacks at Westminster earlier this week. The capital was rocked by the terror attack outside the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday afternoon, which left five dead. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the tragic incident yesterday. Delivering a statement outside New [...]
The GDPR Doomsday Clock strikes a minute closer to midnight March 20, 2017 The lugubrious ticking of my internal GDPR Doomsday Clock struck a minute closer to midnight last week. Tick, it chimed: “only 5 per cent of marketers fully understand what the GDPR means for their business.” Tock, it said: “50 per cent say they don’t really understand it at all, or [literally] don’t know.” The Chartered [...]
Newspaper industry calls for “urgent investigation” into Facebook, Google and fake news March 9, 2017 The newspaper industry has today cranked up the pressure of Google and Facebook, calling for an “urgent investigation” into their impact on the media landscape and fake news. The News Media Association (NMA) wants broadcast regulator Ofcom and/ or the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to examine the “Google-Facebook duopoly”. In its submission to a [...]
Protecting data must be board-level priority February 15, 2017 The Queen has officially opened the National Cyber Security Centre, a government nerve centre that aims to protect the economy, state institutions and critical infrastructure from the growing threat of cyber attacks. Private businesses are also vulnerable. With so much of the City’s business conducted through digital networks, the threat from malicious actors is real. [...]