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 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 >>
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