Two survivors of the Manchester Arena bombing have won a High Court harassment case against a former television producer who claimed the attack was staged. Martin Hibbert and his daughter Eve sued Richard Hall for […]
More than 40 million T-Mobile customers have been hit by a US data breach, the company has admitted. It blamed the breach on a “highly sophisticated cyberattack”. It said it is “taking immediate steps to […]
A woman must delete photographs of her grandchildren that she posted on Facebook and Pinterest without their parents’ permission, a court in the Netherlands has ruled. It ended up in court after a falling-out between […]
Human rights group Liberty has lost its High Court challenge against the government’s Investigatory Powers Act. Called the “Snoopers’ Charter” by its critics, the legislation allows for mass surveillance of electronic devices, allowing intelligence agencies […]
The security service MI5 has handled large amounts of personal data in an “undoubtedly unlawful” way, a watchdog has said. The Investigatory Powers Commissioner said information gathered under warrants was kept too long and not […]
Google has been fined 50 million euros (£44m) by the French data regulator CNIL, for a breach of the EU’s data protection rules. CNIL said it had levied the record fine for “lack of transparency, […]
A cache of Facebook documents has been seized by MPs investigating the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. Rarely-used Parliamentary powers were used to demand that the boss of a US software firm hand over the details. […]
Google is shutting down its much-maligned social network, Google+, after user data was exposed. It said a bug in its software meant information that people believed was private had been accessible by third parties. Google […]
A Canadian analytics firm that worked for Vote Leave has received the UK’s first formal notice under a key data law, the UK’s data protection watchdog has confirmed. AggregateIQ (AIQ) was accused of processing people’s […]
Facebook must face a class action lawsuit over its use of facial recognition technology, a California judge has ruled. The lawsuit alleges that Facebook gathered biometric information without users’ explicit consent. It involves the “tag […]
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