Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the UK are up in arms about the last-minute changes made to policy on the newly-enforced cookie law. Since 26 May, UK website owners have been required by law to ensure the sites obtain users' opt-in ...
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Businesses will face tough penalties for failing to secure personal data under new European legislation. Companies could face fines of up to 2% of their turnover for breaching a proposed EU data protection law. “It is ...
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Phil Shoesmith, head of IT for the Alzheimer's Society charity, has called on Salesforce to keep its promise to build a datacentre in the European Union (EU). The Alzheimer's Society helps 100,000 suffers of dementia in England, Wales and ...
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Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has selected security management firm Wave Systems' Safend Encryptor to encrypt sensitive data and manage and recover data securely. Further reading NHS Trust fined £175,000 for 'entirely avoidable' ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)has fined a marketing firm GBP440,000 for spamming its customers with text messages. Tetrus Telecoms,owned by Christopher Niebel and Gary McNeish,has been under investigation for 18 months after ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)has published a data protection code of practice on managing the risks related to anonymisation. It explains the issues surrounding the anonymisation of personal data and its disclosure,along with ...
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An NHS trust is to challenge a monetary penalty notice issued by the Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)in a case that could set an important precedent. The NHS trust is to be the first public sector organisation to challenge the UK ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)must focus on encouraging organisations to raise employee awareness of the need for robust data security,and not just rely on the threat of fines to do this. So argues Phil Allen,director of ...
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The Department of Health's plan for enabling the public to access their patient medical records online from 2015 needs to take into account the possibility of security being breached,and should include tough sanctions against those who fail ...
Greater Manchester Police has been fined£120,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)for failing to take appropriate measures against the loss of personal data. An investigation into the force's data protection practices ...
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There are concerns about data protection compliance in the public sector, while private organisations are leading the way. That's according to series of reports by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). The findings have been ...
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A second-hand laptop purchased on auction site eBay has been found to contain over 5GB of confidential information relating to global telecoms company Alcatel-Lucent. The files,shown exclusively to Computing,include service,fault and ...
The Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)has published new guidelines that underline businesses'sole responsibility for the protection of data,even if it has been outsourced to third-party cloud network providers. As more businesses ...
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Deputy Information Commissioner David Smith has told Computing that,while he does not dispute the accuracy of figures to suggest a 1,000 per cent rise in UK public and private sector data breaches in the past five years,he is unsure ...
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Three months after the enforcement of the cookie law, only 12% of UK websites have implemented prominent privacy notices with robust cookie controls, a study has revealed. The regulation on the use of cookies derives from an amendment to ...
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