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Government Watchdog Fires Warning to Media Companies to review their Ad Tech

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The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has warned that multiple media companies are in breach of the law as regards the use and abuse of Personal Data.

 

We reported in October of last year how Covid had impacted the ICO and limited their enforcement of GDPR - to such a degree that non-compliance and Data exploitations were running rampant in the absence of any sort of punitive measures.

 

Several issues were identified in Real-Time Bidding systems and Programmatic ...


Why GDPR is a good thing for all of us, but still only a step in the right direction

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My last post was about the dangers of spoofing / malware / ID theft - and a major reason why this is happening so much is that too many companies are recklessly and carelessly exploiting customer details and data - in fact various different types of your personal digital signature and ID. You for example order a pizza online - and are forced to fill in a mobile phone field - meaning forever after you have to fend off myriad call centres up and down the country or indeed on other continents - ...


Spoofing is at epidemic levels now and more needs to be done to counter it

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In these past few weeks I have witnessed or experienced 4 significant spoofing attempts / events. Most of us will have caught the news about over 1 million Android users inadvertently downloading a fake version of the WhatsApp chat app. I’ve received a fake Adobe tax refund email, several fake Amazon SMS delivery notifications (with suspicious ’preview’ pop-up links), as well as encountered what I believe are a couple of spoof ’Sign into iTunes Store’ pop-ups on my...


The EU's new Privacy Ruling vs Google is not really in the Public's Best Interest

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This all started with Spanish Citizen’s Mario Costeja González discontent over a Google Search Result on his name which referred to an article featuring information about the repossession and auction of his home some years earlier. He argued that this was ’out-of-date’ information which was an affront to his ’Dignity’ and his ’Right to Privacy’. He argued that he had a ’Right to be forgotten’ and that Google should be made to remove ...

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