Blog Posts - Data Protection

43% of businesses experienced data loss due to a targeted attack 20% of enterprises had four or more data breaches within a year Loss or exposure of sensitive data is the worst outcome of a......

Data Protection is one of those areas where if you ask 10 different people “Do I need to be registered?” you’ll get 10 different answers.  So we wanted to clear this one up: As a UK VA, you DO need … Continue reading →...

How brands will use the Internet of Things (IoT) to develop their customer relationships. The Internet of Things  will soon become a significant channel through which brands will be able to create and deepen relationships with their customers, a new...

EU privacy watchdogs have demanded changes to a pact meant to govern cross Atlantic data transfers. The group urged the US and European Commission to revise and clarify several points in the proposed Privacy Shield agreement in order to safeguard EU...

GCHQ is within UK law when it hacks into computers and smart phones, a security tribunal has ruled. Campaigners Privacy International have lost a legal challenge claiming the spying post’s hacking operations are too intrusive and break European...

Hackers stole gigabytes of data from Ashley Madison including login names, passwords and website code. More than 11 million passwords stolen from the Ashley Madison infidelity dating website have been decoded, says a password cracking group. When sto...

The Information Commissioner's Office recent audit of data protection at  Brent Council resulted in a 'Limited Assurance' grade - the second lowest.The report LINK Executive Summary states:There is a limited level of assurance that processes and...

Google collects schoolchildren’s personal data, including internet searches, a civil liberties group says. In a complaint to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said the alleged practice broke both Go...

A UK security firm has shown how one phone hacking tool actually works. It allows spies to take secret pictures with a phone’s camera and record conversations with the microphone, without the phone owner knowing. Hacking Team’s software w...

A VPN is a virtual version of a secure, physical network—a web of computers linked together to share files. But VPNs connect to the outside world over the Internet, and they can serve to secure general Internet traffic in addition to corporate asse...

Yesterday I wrote about the process of requesting details from Political Parties of the details they retain after holding conversations with us as potential voters. My blog followed on from an earlier tweet which some of the local party activists an...

These words “subject access request” meant nothing to me until yesterday when I learnt that the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) developed this phrase to allow people like you and me to demand that organisations which are register...

Several car infotainment systems are vulnerable to a hacking that could potentially put lives at risk. Car infotainment systems can allow drivers to see vehicle status updates, play music and videos, view maps and in some cases run third-party apps,...

Philip Grant wondered if Wembley Matters readers could stand another posting on 'The Two Questions' when he submitted this guest blog. One of Brent Council's strategies is to continue to stonewall until complainants give up. Philip's persistence is a...

Thousands of young people are taking part in a UK debate about what should be included in a “Magna Carta” for the digital age by the British Library. Their most popular priority was safety on the net, followed by protecting freedom of spe...

Among the most critical of website compliance regulations in both Germany and other European Countries are mandatory legal contact — or “impressum” — directives requiring website operators to include very specific regulatory i...

Google has centralised all its privacy and security controls into a single place. The My Account hub brings together settings previously spread over different web pages. Google says the move is designed to make it easier for people to see and control...

In our day and age of unconstitutional government spying, decisively using end-to-end encryption for electronic communications may be the only way to counter illegal government surveillance. In the United States as well as European and other countrie...

Is the digital transformation of our society changing the future of recorded history? Nowadays most of our photos, videos, conversations, research and writings are stored as strings of ones and noughts on local computers or in data centres distribute...

Hackers can use copies of the fingerprints used to unlock the Samsung Galaxy S5 phones. A flaw in the Android software makes it possible to steal the personal information so it can be used elsewhere, said the experts from security firm FireEye. Other...

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