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  • Wednesday, 18 November, 2020
    Some UK charities are sharing sensitive data with advertisers, say academics

    Privacy activists also voice concern about information on potentially vulnerable people being used

  • Wednesday, 18 November, 2020
    Digital economy
    Business shift online in pandemic sparks rise in regulatory probes

    More than 40% of companies surveyed face scrutiny over poorly implemented technology

  • Monday, 16 November, 2020
    Internet privacy
    Apple tracks iPhone users without consent, claims activist Max Schrems

    Austrian activist files complaints with German and Spanish data protection authorities

  • Tuesday, 3 November, 2020
    FT MagazineTim Bradshaw
    The hidden dangers of orphaned data

    We assume our medical records, tax returns and travel documents are safe. Often, they are not

  • Wednesday, 28 October, 2020
    Apple Inc
    Apple hit with antitrust complaint in France over privacy controls

    Coalition of trade groups opposes tech company’s plan to restrict trackers used for mobile advertising

  • Friday, 23 October, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Digital privacy — can we reclaim it?

    Two books ask how we can take back control of our data in a surveillance society

  • Monday, 19 October, 2020
    Nick Clegg
    Europe should tear down digital walls not build new ones

    Regulations must be designed to keep the internet open and global

  • Friday, 16 October, 2020
    British Airways PLC
    BA fine for data breach in 2018 sharply reduced

    Relief for airline after UK’s data protection regulator cuts penalty to £20m

  • Thursday, 8 October, 2020
    FT AlphavilleIzabella Kaminska
    ICO’s final report into Cambridge Analytica invites regulatory questions

    A three-year inquiry into data mishandling by Cambridge Analytica by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office has come up with diddly-squat. So now what?

  • Promoted Content
  • Wednesday, 7 October, 2020
    Cambridge Analytica
    Cambridge Analytica probe finds no evidence it misused data to influence Brexit

    UK Information Commission concludes three-year investigation into digital marketing group

  • Tuesday, 6 October, 2020
    Data sharing
    EU’s top court blocks states from gathering user data for surveillance

    Move threatens to complicate Brexit negotiations over data sharing between bloc and UK

  • Friday, 2 October, 2020
    Inside BusinessRichard Waters
    The gadgets that test consumer privacy limits

    Google and Amazon wrestle with how to fit hardware into everyday life without provoking a backlash

  • Tuesday, 29 September, 2020
    Brexit
    Security data would be wiped in event of no-deal Brexit

    Former EU security commissioner warns UK risks being ‘unplugged’ from European law enforcement systems

  • Thursday, 24 September, 2020
    Cambridge Analytica
    Ex-Cambridge Analytica chief banned from directorships

    Alexander Nix’s 7-year ban follows collapse of data analytics group

  • Friday, 18 September, 2020
    AnalysisThe Big Read
    Trump’s TikTok dance: the politicisation of American business

    A messy sale process triggered by national security concerns reflects the growing tech rivalry between the US and China

  • Thursday, 17 September, 2020
    Advertising
    Social media groups urged to block ads targeting teens

    Campaigners say profiling the age group is exploitative because of their susceptibility to marketing

  • Wednesday, 16 September, 2020
    Dominique Shelton Leipzig
    US should seize chance to end data-sharing stand-off

    A new executive order could address the confusion left by ECJ’s privacy shield ruling

  • Tuesday, 15 September, 2020
    Internet privacy
    EU proposal targets digital encryption

    European Commission paper sets up potential clash with tech companies and privacy advocates

  • Sunday, 13 September, 2020
    EU tech regulation
    EU companies left in limbo over US data transfers

    Two months after ECJ struck down Privacy Shield, activists are targeting companies for not protecting data

  • Wednesday, 26 August, 2020
    Apple Inc
    Facebook attacks Apple for curbing personalised ads

    Upcoming iPhone update will ask users if they want to be tracked

  • Sunday, 23 August, 2020
    Marietje Schaake
    EU risks being dethroned as world’s lead digital regulator

    Donald Trump’s tussle with TikTok and Huawei holds a lesson for European politicians

  • Wednesday, 19 August, 2020
    Hotel group Marriott faces London lawsuit over huge data breach

    Journalist files collective action on behalf of Starwood customers whose details were exposed

  • Tuesday, 18 August, 2020
    TikTok Inc
    Oracle enters race to buy TikTok’s US operations

    Tech group is working with investors in effort to outbid Microsoft after Trump divestment order

  • Friday, 7 August, 2020
    US-China relations
    Trump takes aim at Tencent’s WeChat in escalation of anti-China campaign

    US companies given 45 days to stop dealing with messaging app

  • Thursday, 6 August, 2020
    Free LunchMartin Sandbu
    Democracy may demand a splintered internet Premium

    Citizens must be able to choose how their data are governed

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