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Privacy campaigners rally against "illegal" Clearview AI data scraping
By Bobby Hellard published
News The notorious facial recognition firm claims to have a database of more than three billion images scraped from social media sites

Germany bans Facebook from using WhatsApp data over GDPR concerns
By Bobby Hellard published
News Hamburg's data protection commissioner issues three-month ban days before the app's new privacy policy rolls out

Facebook faces 'mass action' lawsuit over data breach
By Zach Marzouk published
News Digital Rights Ireland is urging European Facebook users who have been affected to sign up

Irish data watchdog to investigate Facebook data leak
By Sabina Weston published
News The regulator believes that Facebook may have infringed ‘one or more’ GDPR provisions following apparent leak of 533 million user records

What is the Data Protection Act 1998?
By Dale Walker last updated
In-depth Although data protection regulations have been updated, businesses may still find themselves sanctioned under the Data Protection Act 1998

EU might force tech giants to share data with smaller rivals
By Sabina Weston published
News The Digital Services Act draft also suggests that firms may be banned from giving their own services preferential treatment

UK signs 'historic' data deal with Japan
By Bobby Hellard published
News The provisional agreement contains digital and data provisions that go far beyond the deal signed between Japan and the EU, gov claims

Irish data watchdog orders Facebook to halt EU user data transfers to the US
By Bobby Hellard published
News Nick Clegg suggests cancelling its transfer mechanism could cause chaos for businesses and the global economy
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