Facebook has been fined £500,000 by a UK court over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, an amount which, based on last year’s revenue, the social network makes in less than 9 minutes of operation.
Google is closing its flagship social network Google+ after data from up to 500,000 users was left exposed by a bug.
A new app designed to help the Conservative Conference in the UK this week has sparked a PR disaster, after the app let anyone to see the mobile numbers of attendees and to change their photos and details.
More than half of organizations say that a fixation on transformation is raising risk of wasteful projects, as 86 percent see next 12 months as a critical period for businesses, according to new research.
Three fifths of UK consumers leave a website in less than 30 seconds if it’s ugly or hard to navigate, while a quarter of Britons have switched loyalty for better tech, according to new research.
The ICO has reported a sharp rise in complaints after GDPR, from a rise in breach notifications from organisations, as well as more data protection complaints following the activation of the law.
Social forum site Reddit has overtaken Facebook to become the third most visited platform in the US, according to rankings on Alexa, the Amazon-owned Web traffic analysing platform.
With the headlines full of stories about how unprepared marketers are for GDPR, new research from Databoxer gets to the crux of what British consumers hate people doing without getting permission first — whether it’s brands or even friends, family and strangers.
Consumer awareness of upcoming new data laws directly increases comfort in data sharing, according to new research.
Consumers would rather share their toothbrush with their partner than receive an unsolicited phone call from a brand, according to new research.