2020-02-13
It is understood the watchdog is to be given responsibility for ensuring that firms such as Twitter and Facebook comply with a new legal “duty of care” requiring them to protect their users from illegal material.https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
The Guardian
UK expands broadcast regulator Ofcom's role to include online content, giving it the ability to enforce content standards on social media
but punts all the hard decisions to either the companies or to later in the year https://www.politico.eu/... https://twitter.com/... ICO / @iconews : You can read our full statemen...
2020-01-26
Names, ages, and physical addresses were allegedly included in the data breach. The publication labeled the incident as “one of the biggest breaches of [UK] government data . https://www.zdnet.com/...
ZDNet
Report: betting companies had access to a UK Department for Education database with records of 28M children, after a third-party gave access without permission
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