“Threatening and coercive” cold-callers who targeted the elderly hit with big fines
We take a look at some big fines for cold-callers penalised for hundreds of thousands of unwanted calls.
Covid app’s privacy information ruled not clear enough
The UK’s data watchdog has issued a reprimand to both the Scottish government and NHS National Services Scotland about their COVID Status app
Massive faceprint scraping company Clearview AI hauled over the coals
Clearview AI can expect to be fined up to $23 million for privacy infringements in the UK. The ICO has found the company failed to comply with UK data protection laws.
A week in security (Nov 22 – Nov 28)
The most important and interesting security stories from the last seven days.
ICO challenges adtech to step up privacy protection
The Information Commissioner’s Office has published an opinion asking for initiatives that address the privacy problems adtech
That’s the way the cookie banner crumbles?
Eyeing a break with the GDPR, the UK has asked the G7 to consider the pernicious permission pop-up problem.
