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Home improvement firm fined £40,000 for 'aggressively pestering' homeowners with sales calls

Green Logic UK Ltd said it operated in "good faith" when it made nuisance marketing calls using data it had purchased.

Wales Online

21 years later, PlayStation owes everything to this forgotten classic

This PlayStation 2 title's groundbreaking gameplay has influenced games like 'The Last of Us' but the development ethos behind it is no longer found at Sony.

Inverse

TikTok could face £27m fine for failing to protect children’s privacy

Investigation finds video-sharing app may have breached UK data protection law between 2018 and 2020

The Guardian - UK

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TikTok could be fined £27m for alleged failure to protect children's privacy

The Information Commissioner’s Office said it had found the company may have breached UK data protection law

Wales Online

Redactions needed before council can reveal controversial match day parking report

Liverpool Council 'minded to publish' report it wrongly held onto about Beautiful Ideas Company

Liverpool Echo

Mayor's pledge to tackle 'wrongdoing' ahead of matchday parking cash report

Watchdog found the council 'wrongly withheld' audit report into the Beautiful Ideas Company

Liverpool Echo

Truss and Kwarteng’s old departments reprimanded for failing to comply with transparency laws

Department for International Trade given its first enforcement notice in seven years

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Watchdog takes action against two Government departments over FOI delays

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said an enforcement notice has been issued for the first time in seven years.

The Independent UK

Halfords fined for sending out 500,000 unwanted marketing emails

The bike retailer said it was 'surprised' by the decision

Wales Online

Aaron Banks ‘writes off £7m loan’ as Leave.EU goes into liquidation

Brexit campaign group fronted by Nigel Farage leaves thousands in unpaid fines for data law breaches

The Guardian - UK

Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill's office breached transparency laws over Chinese consul meeting, watchdog finds

The Information Commissioner's Office examined the Executive Office's response to requests for minutes of the meeting

Belfast Live

UK data watchdog investigates whether AI systems show racial bias

ICO says AI-driven discrimination can lead to job rejections or being wrongfully denied bank loans or benefit

The Guardian - UK

Predatory marketing calls will be data protection priority, says regulator

Information Commissioner’s Office also planning to support children’s privacy as one of its two key focuses over the next three years

Wales Online

ICO urges ministers to review use of Whatsapp and other private channels

UK data watchdog said there had been extensive use of such channels within the health department, which risked transparency

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UK health department reprimanded for use of private messaging services during pandemic

The Information Comissioners Office (ICO) found "extenstive use" of messaging apps like Whatsapp amongst government ministers and officials

Liverpool Echo

Liverpool Council refers itself to Information Commissioner after letter blunder

Some residents across the city have not received the financial support for their energy bills

GamesRadar

10 games to make you feel good

The best feel good games are here to bring some joy into your life! So give some of these titles a try

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UK data watchdog to scale back fines for public bodies

Information Commissioner’s Office says users of public services often bear brunt of financial punishments

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The Guardian - UK

Parking fines: DVLA breached law over sharing drivers’ details

Agency could face compensation claims after data watchdog rules it applied wrong part of the law

The Conversation

Facial recognition technology: how it's being used in Ukraine and why it's still so controversial

Facial recognition technology is being used in warfare for the first time. It could be a game changer in Ukraine, where it is being used to identify the dead and reunite families. But if we fail to grapple with the ethics of this technology now, we could find ourselves in…

Glasgow Live

Glasgow woman behind cold calling firm that made one million nuisance calls

Businesswoman Ashley Dodwell has been banned from running a company after her boiler replacement company Making It Easy when it bombarded people with unwanted calls.

The Independent UK

Police threatened with fines for unlawfully seizing rape victims’ personal information

Intrusive requests are ‘traumatising’ victims and causing them to drop out of prosecutions, watchdog says

The Guardian - UK

UK investigators told to stop mass collection of personal data in rape cases

Information commissioner says indiscriminate gathering of details is undermining trust in justice system

The Guardian - UK

Facial recognition firms should take a look in the mirror

Clearview AI was fined for using internet-sourced images of UK residents in its database – but not before police forces used its service

The Guardian - UK

TechScape: Clearview AI was fined £7.5m for brazenly harvesting your data – does it care?

The facial recognition firm earned a heavy fine for scraping millions of pictures of people’s faces from social media. But that doesn’t mean it will change its ways

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