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Unroll.me head ‘heartbroken’ that users found out it sells their inbox data
The chief executive of email unsubscription service Unroll.me has said he is “heartbroken” that users felt betrayed by the fact that his company monetises the contents of their inbox by…
Data retention scheme comes into force with civil lawsuit safeguards
Personal data collected under the government’s mandatory data retention scheme, which comes into force on Thursday, will not be able to be used in civil lawsuits, the government has confirmed.…
UK government can force encryption removal, but fears losing, experts say
The government already has the power to force technology firms to act as it wants over end-to-end encryption, but is avoiding using existing legislation as it would force it into…
A guide to the EPA data under threat by the Trump administration
Several highly publicized campaigns are taking place to save the data maintained by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from becoming inaccessible to the public under the Trump administration. “There…
NHS data loss: 500 patients may have suffered serious harm
Five hundred patients may have suffered serious harm as a result of the NHSmislaying 500,000 test results and letters over a five-year period, ministers and officials have admitted in parliament.…
Another NHS crisis looms – an inability to analyse data
Public institutions such as the National Health Service increasingly want—and are expected—to base their actions on nationally agreed standards, rather than anecdote. The collection and analysis of data, when done…
May pressured NHS to release data to track immigration offenders
The former head of NHS Digital repeatedly clashed with Theresa May’s Home Office over requests to hand over confidential patient data to help trace immigration offenders, he has revealed. Kingsley…
We’re actually not that close to a paperless office
After last month’s report from AIIM, which said we were actually inching closer to a paperless office thanks to the unrelenting digitisation, a new report from Danwood now says exactly…
Cyber Security in 2017
There is much uncertainty surrounding the security industry for 2017, and according to experts in the field, a lot of the trepidation is directly connected to what the nation’s next…
Data Security Predictions
CISOs will shift more investment toward granularly identifying information vs. parametric measures: Depending on your business, digital information on average is doubling every three to nine months. The knee-jerk reaction to…