Facebook’s in more trouble with the UK data regulator over WhatsApp plans November 8, 2016 Facebook has run into more trouble with the UK's data regulator over plans to share personal data from WhatsApp and has "paused" things as a result. The social media giant plans to monetise the hugely popular messaging app by letting businesses communicate with users. This will involve WhatsApp data being shared with Facebook, however, that could [...]
Sadiq Khan urges Londoners to be vigilant and calm following North Greenwich security alert arrest October 21, 2016 Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has urged Londoners to be calm and vigilant after an arrest was made today under the Terrorism Act following a security alert at North Greenwich station yesterday. Khan also praised the police and TfL for their swift action in dealing with the alert. A 19-year-old man was arrested by officers from [...]
TalkTalk slapped with record fine over cyber attack October 5, 2016 TalkTalk has been slapped with a record fine of £400,000 for failing to prevent a cyber attack last year. The Information Commissioner's office has handed out the largest ever fine to the telecoms firm which suffered one of the most high profile attacks ever experienced by a business in the UK. The data regulator said it did [...]
Authorities to investigate changes to how WhatsApp and Facebook handle personal data August 26, 2016 The information commissioner said today that she is looking into changes to the way Facebook and WhatsApp handle customers' personal data. The messaging service, which was bought by social media giant Facebook in 2014 for $22bn (£16bn), announced yesterday that it was going to allow businesses to message its over one billion users with SMS messages. [...]
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has reacted angrily to fresh questions as #traingate rumbles into a second day August 24, 2016 Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has reacted angrily to fresh questions over a spat with Virgin Trains revolving around a video complaining of a “ram-packed” service. Corbyn put out a video of him sitting on a train floor last week, arguing that over-crowding was a further illustration of the need for the nationalisation of the train [...]
How Edinburgh is driving the fintech revolution August 14, 2016 According to recent figures published by Innovate Finance, global investment in fintech has rocketed from $930m in 2008 to $12.5bn in 2015, with recognised tech clusters such as Edinburgh supporting London’s global dominance. Fintech is, to coin a phrase, white hot right now. It’s not only empowering new start-ups with the ability to launch disruptive [...]
Here’s one piece of EU red tape you won’t escape by voting for Brexit June 21, 2016 UK companies will be affected by an incoming piece of EU data protection legislation regardless of which way Thursday's vote goes, an international law firm has said today. Speaking ahead of a conference at the Institute of Directors headlined by specialist insurer Beazley, Hans Allnutt, head of the cyber risk and breach response team at DAC Beachcroft, pointed [...]
NHS fined £180k for data breach that leaked HIV clinic patient identities May 9, 2016 The NHS has been fined thousands of pounds for revealing the identities of hundreds of patients of a London HIV clinic because of an email error. A newsletter from a sexual health clinic in Soho was sent out to more than 700 users of an HIV service last year with patient email addresses and full [...]
City Moves for 6 May 2016 | Who’s switching jobs May 6, 2016 The Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors The Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors has announced the appointment of its new chief professional practice adviser, Liz Sandwith, who brings over 28 years’ experience in internal audit and risk management. Liz joins from Bupa where she held a number of roles in her five years there – from [...]
I would trust Google’s DeepMind with my personal data more than the NHS May 4, 2016 The NHS is not a data company. Google's pretty good with that kind of thing. No wonder, then that the millions of pieces of information the health service has amassed about the nation's wellbeing – from admission times to blood tests – is being shared with the company in pursuit of the shared and very human [...]