Tag: ico
Tech Digest daily round up: NurseryCam system breached
A webcam system that lets parents watch their children while at nursery school has written to families to tell them of a data breach. NurseryCam said it did not believe the incident had involved any youngsters or staff being watched without their permission but had shut down its server as a precautionary measure. The Guildford-based…
Which? exposes risk of smart doorbells
Smart doorbells sold for low prices on online marketplaces can be easily switched off, stolen or hacked by criminals, a Which? investigation has found. Which? bought 11 smart doorbells, some of which looked very similar to Amazon Ring or Google Nest models, available from popular online marketplaces such as Amazon Marketplace and eBay. Working with…
ICO fines Marriott £18.4million for data breach
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined Marriott International Inc £18.4million for failing to keep millions of customers’ personal data secure. Marriott estimates that 339 million guest records worldwide were affected following a cyber-attack in 2014 on Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Inc. The attack, from an unknown source, remained undetected until September 2018, by…
Facebook accepts £500,000 fine over personal data misuse
Facebook has agreed to pay a fine of £500,000 following an investigation into the misuse of personal data in political campaigns. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced on Wednesday that the tech giant had withdrawn its appeal against the “monetary penalty notice” and would accept the fine without admitting any liability. In 2017 the ICO…
Government portal Gov.UK probed by data watchdog
The UK’s data and privacy watchdog is looking into how personal data on the Government’s main website, Gov.UK, is collected after it was reported the portal is being used to target users in preparation for Brexit. A memo obtained by BuzzFeed allegedly tells departments to share data collected from its gov.uk website, marked as “top…
Facebook brings facial recognition setting to all users
Facebook is making its facial recognition setting available to all users but is keeping the function turned off by default amid ongoing unease about the technology. The social network’s face recognition system creates a “template” of a user’s face based on other images they are tagged in, which means it can inform people if someone…
UK data watchdog ‘considering’ concerns about FaceApp
View this post on Instagram I need a break. A post shared by Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) on Jul 16, 2019 at 12:53pm PDT The UK’s data watchdog has said it is “considering” concerns raised about the FaceApp service over…
Hotel firm Marriott fined £99 million for customer data breach
Hotel chain Marriott is facing a fine of £99 million over a data breach which is estimated to have affected around 339 million customers. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) fine relates to a data breach at the company believed to have originated in the systems of the Starwood hotels group in 2014. Marriott acquired Starwood…
EE fined for sending customers marketing texts without consent
Mobile network operator EE has been fined £100,000 by the UK’s data watchdog for sending millions of direct marketing messages to its customers without their consent. An investigation by the Information Commission’s Office (ICO) found that the BT-owned company sent more than 2.5 million text messages in early 2018, encouraging customers to download its My…
ICO receives 14,000 data breach reports in first year of GDPR
More than 14,000 data breaches have been logged by the the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) in the UK alone during the first year since the introduction of new data protection laws. Between May 25 2018, the day which GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) was introduced, and the beginning of May this year, the ICO (Information…
