Following numerous privacy complaints, the State Office for Data Protection Supervision (BayLDA) recently conducted a random audit on 40 companies and found widespread problems with their cookie ...

The United Kingdom has seen the number of data breach notifications more than quadruple since Europe's tough new privacy law went into full force. The EU's General Data Protection Regulation went into ...

On 27 March 2025, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued a £3.07 million fine to an IT services provider following a ransomware attack in 2022 that affected the company’s health care ...

Organizations subject to the EU's General Data Protection Regulation should do regular compliance audits. Here are the steps experts say you should take. For many organizations, preparing for the ...

The European Union introduced the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018 and it forms part of current UK law. A long and complex piece of legislation, the GDPR governs the processing of ...

Self-reported data security incidents, March to June 2018. (Source: ICO) The scale of data breaches in Europe is rapidly evolving past the "problem unknown" stage, thanks to the EU's General Data ...

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