Data protection

The choices that characters make in scary movies can often seem baffling. Why do they never turn the lights on

Five years ago, you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who had even heard of the dark web. Now this realm

We now live in the age of the internet of things, where voice-sniffing devices abound, and consumers have the convenience

Both traditional and social media lit up earlier this year following the launch of a ground-breaking campaign for charity Malaria

Across the tech industry, there is a crisis of trust that is centred around how companies handle data – from

British Airways will “vigorously defend itself” against its £183m fine by authorities for a data breach in which more than

Equifax has agreed to pay as much as $700m (£562m) as part of a settlement with the US regulator following

The number of whistleblower reports to the information commissioner over data breaches have jumped 175 per cent since GDPR came

Google has admitted its contractors listen in on conversations people have with its smart speaker system, Assistant. The tech giant

Hotel chain Marriott is set to be fined more than £99m for a data breach that compromised the personal details

I’ve never been psychoanalysed before. But upon entering the conference room with Sven Hughes, founder of strategic communications consultancy Verbalisation,

Saturday marks the first anniversary of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) finally coming into force. GDPR was

The Irish data privacy watchdog has launched an inquiry into Google over the way it collects data for online advertising.

Facebook has ditched its trademark blue banner as it re-centres its tools around privacy following a year dogged by data