Alex Hern reports: Facebook has been fined €10m (£8.9m) by Italian authorities for misleading users over its data practices. The two fines issued by Italy’s competition watchdog are some of the largest levied against the social media company for data misuse, dwarfing the £500,000 fine levied by the British Information Commissioner’s Office in [Read More…]
Orla O’Donnell reports: Convicted murderer Graham Dwyer has won his legal action against the Garda Commissioner and the State over data from mobile phones. The ruling could have implications for many other criminal cases and investigations. The High Court found that the Irish legislation, which allows data from mobile phones to be retained [Read More…]
Thomas Brewster reports: The Syrian Electronic Army was causing carnage half a decade ago. Outside of attacking the U.S. government and major publications like Forbes, two of the hacker crew’s chief operators even made it onto the FBI’s Most Wanted list. But the SEA hasn’t made headlines in some time, largely [Read More…]
A former headteacher has been fined in court for unlawfully obtaining school children’s personal data from previous schools where he worked. Darren Harrison of Twickenham, obtained the information from two primary schools were he had worked, and uploaded it to his then current school’s server. As he had no lawful [Read More…]