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Statement in response to Marriott International, Inc’s filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) intends to fine it for breaches of data protection law. Following an extensive investigation the ICO has issued a notice of its intention to fine Marriott International £99,200,396 ($164,067,534 CDN) for…

An independent review of King’s College London’s (KCL) security arrangements has found that the university breached the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), as well as its own data protection policy, when it disclosed the sensitive personal information of students and staff to the Metropolitan Police. The review, carried out by independent…

British Airways is facing a record fine of £183m for last year’s breach of its security systems. The airline, owned by IAG, says it is “surprised and disappointed” by the penalty from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). At the time, BA said hackers had carried out a “sophisticated, malicious criminal…

“You wouldn’t know a diamond if you held it in your hand… The things you think are precious I can’t understand” Reelin’ in the Years Walter Becker & Donald Fagan Well, who’d have thought it? Just when you think the clueless marketers of today can’t surprise us with their stupidity…

As the famous idiom goes: “Nothing is certain but death and taxes.” Now, in our digital age, we can add one more certainty: data breaches. This year we’ve already seen quite a long list of data breaches from all around the world. While most of the focus usually falls on financial…

Geofencing is a buzzy mobile app capability that’s been around for at least a decade; however, developers are only now seeing the full potential of geofencing for building a great user-first experience. While geofencing received some attention in relation to user privacy, new tools are considering how geofencing can better…

Since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect last May, there has been a great deal of interest in how it applies to cookies and similar technologies. Cookies can seem a complex issue. The rules on their use are in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), not…

The 2019 federal election is just over 100 days away. In the lead-up to election day, there will be no shortage of issues vying for voters’ attention. One issue that will directly affect each of Canada’s 27 million voters is politicians’ failure to safeguard the electorate’s personal privacy. To many…

In Sidewalk Labs’ Master Innovation and Development Plan (MIDP), released Monday, the Alphabet company echoed its assurances that the Quayside project would abide by all provincial and federal government regulations encompassing data, including both existing and future privacy laws. “Everybody wants personal information in personally identifiable form, that’s the big win.”– Ann…

The online behavioural advertising industry is illegally profiling internet users. That’s the damning assessment of the U.K.’s data protection regulator in an update report published today, in which it sets out major concerns about the programmatic advertising process known as real-time bidding (RTB), which makes up a large chunk of online…