Ouch, talk about putting the boot in. The Information Commissioner's Office has decided that Sony should have done more to prevent all that PSN hacking back in 2011, which saw millions of users details, including credit cards and addresses, compromised. It's slapped Sony with a huge £250,000 fine. Read More >>
The Information Commissioner's Office is officially looking into the goings on at Google again. Having seen the American FCC slap big G with a £16,000 fine, the ICO's having stern words over Google's Street View Wi-Fi sniffing. Read More >>
Featured comment by Charax:
"Didn't we go through this before? the ICO decided not to pursue it. Has any new evidence come to light to make things significantly worse?
'cos if ..." More »
The long-running saga of Google's Street View cars and what user data they did/didn't harvest and if it was/wasn't done on purpose has exploded back into life, with claims that Google purposefully built code to grab our data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks seeing the search giant back under the eye of the UK Information Commissioner’s Office. Read More >>
Featured comment by Casper:
"From the point of an information security analyst, I'd be interested to know what "data" they actually got. Some said it was just what pages people we..." More »
Getting less spam texts recently? You can thank our good ol'Information Commissioner’s Office. It’s finally put its newfound muscle into practice and has blocked 20,000 SIM cards responsible for bombarding us poor folk with around eight million spam texts a day. Read More >>
Featured comment by Southern:
"Oddly enough I actually got my first one today. An ambulance chaser claiming I was owed money after an accident...coincidence or what?" More »
After hard drives containing sensitive patient data were sold-off on eBay, the NHS has a rather massive fine coming its way from the Information Commissioner's Office. Thing is, it wasn’t exactly the NHS’s fault. Read More >>
Featured comment by ThisIsNotAUsername:
"A fine is a little pointless as it won't modify their behaviour. Someone in management should have got sacked to reduce the chances of it happening ag..." More »
Online bingo's big business in the UK, but players of Foxy Bingo got a bit more risk than they bargained for. Personal data, including names and addresses, of over 65,000 Foxy players was recently put up for sale having been stolen in 2008. Read More >>
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