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India’s new data protection bill continues to “facilitate state surveillance”
News Although data localisation requirements have now been removed, it’s down to the Indian government to select which countries data is allowed to be sent to
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Palantir made £22m profit from NHS data deals
News OpenDemocracy group suggests former Palantir employees have now made their way into UK government positions
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LinkedIn denies data breach that reportedly exposed 700 million user records
News Report claims 'breach' led to profiles belonging to 92% of LinkedIn users being put up for sale on a popular hacker forum
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Privacy campaigners rally against "illegal" Clearview AI data scraping
News The notorious facial recognition firm claims to have a database of more than three billion images scraped from social media sites
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Germany bans Facebook from using WhatsApp data over GDPR concerns
News Hamburg's data protection commissioner issues three-month ban days before the app's new privacy policy rolls out
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Facebook faces 'mass action' lawsuit over data breach
News Digital Rights Ireland is urging European Facebook users who have been affected to sign up
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Irish data watchdog to investigate Facebook data leak
News The regulator believes that Facebook may have infringed ‘one or more’ GDPR provisions following apparent leak of 533 million user records
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What is the Data Protection Act 1998?
In-depth Although data protection regulations have been updated, businesses may still find themselves sanctioned under the Data Protection Act 1998
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EU might force tech giants to share data with smaller rivals
News The Digital Services Act draft also suggests that firms may be banned from giving their own services preferential treatment
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UK signs 'historic' data deal with Japan
News The provisional agreement contains digital and data provisions that go far beyond the deal signed between Japan and the EU, gov claims
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Irish data watchdog orders Facebook to halt EU user data transfers to the US
News Nick Clegg suggests cancelling its transfer mechanism could cause chaos for businesses and the global economy
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TikTok to open first European data centre in Ireland
News The move could signify a desire to shift its operations away from the US as well as secure its position in the European market
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