Privacy and Data Protection

TikTok, the video sharing social medial platform is to be fined €345 million for failing to protect children’s privacy. Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner announced the fine against the video sharing app for breaches of the GDPR data protection law. TikTok exposed children aged 13 to 17 to risks by making their accounts publicly available by default and allowing them to pair their accounts with adults who may not be family members, the regulator found. The Chinese owned company has been given three months to rectify the breaches following a reprimand from the regulator. The fine follows an investigation initiated by the Irish data protection regulator into TikTok Technology Limited’s handling of children’s data and age verification procedures in September 2021.

You can now set up alerts for whenever your home address, phone number, and email address appears in Search.

NatWest bank has offered compensation to a former customer affected by a data breach alongside about 1600 other former and current customers.

If you’re worried that one of Apple’s trackers is following you without consent, try these tips.

Here's how to take some control of your data while using artificial intelligence tools and apps.

The biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner is calling for a review of public space surveillance to gain a clearer picture about the proliferation of Chinese surveillance technology across the public sector, but warns against applying double standards on companies just because they are from China

The developing data breach at Greater Manchester Police follows a cyber attack on the systems of a key supplier of ID services to the force

Here's how to request that your personal information not be used to train Meta's AI model. "Request" is the operative word here.

Zoom is populated by our faces, our voices, and more. If companies like it want to use customer data to train their AI—now or in the future—they need to let people choose if, and how much, to opt in.

Human error is being blamed for the leak of personally identifiable information on all serving officers and civilian staffers at the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

Police Scotland confirms it has stored significant volumes of biometric data on a cloud-based digital evidence sharing system despite major on-going data protection concerns, bringing into question the effectiveness of the current regulatory approach as well as the overall legality of using hyperscale public cloud technologies in a policing context

Want to try out Meta’s new social media app? Here’s more context on what personal data is collected by Threads and similar social media apps.

The European Commission should revoke the UK’s data adequacy if its Data protection and Digital Information bill passes, which campaigners argue “flies in the face” of the decision