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Facebook Ireland follows Data Protection Commissioner Guidance

Category: Legal Technologies

22 May, 2013

Facebook Ireland has followed guidance from the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner The agency began a major audit of Facebook Ireland in 2011 after lobby Europe Versus Facebook lodged 22 complaints, and Facebook Ireland agreed to a number of “best practice” improvements, repo... read more>>

Trinity Mirror takes action over phone hacking allegations

Category: Legal Technologies

17 May, 2013

Trinity Mirror is taking legal action over recent phone hacking allegations. It has ordered an external law firm to arrest six current and former journalists regarding the accusations, which relate to phone hacking and inappropriate payments to public officials. In a statement, the compa... read more>>

Smartphones are an avenue for hackers, experts warn

Category: Legal Technologies

16 May, 2013

Smartphones are turning into a common avenue for hackers to exploit, one expert has warned. A study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta has indicated that threats are on the rise, with phishing proving to be a particular problem for handset owners. Marie Gooding, first vice president of th... read more>>

ICO report shows uncertainty over EU data protection reform

Category: Legal Technologies

15 May, 2013

There is uncertainty surrounding a new report on the European Union’s data protection reform, a new report has indicated. A study by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found that 40 per cent of companies do not completely understand any of the ten main provisions being p... read more>>

Police dismantle cold-calling gang in the UK

Category: Legal Technologies

13 May, 2013

Police have caught a suspected organised UK crime gang that is cold-calling and texting pension holders throughout the country. Arrests were made as part of an operation triggered by intelligence from a number of agencies, including the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which found ... read more>>

20% of companies do not protect outsourced customer data

Category: Legal Technologies

10 May, 2013

Some 20 per cent of companies do not protect their customer data before it is provided to outsourcers for application testing, a new study has found. The Compuware survey, carried out by Vanson Bourne, discovered that 43 of the chief information officers participating in the research do not unde... read more>>

Herts police investigated after data breach

Category: Legal Technologies

9 May, 2013

Hertfordshire Police are being investigated by the Information  Commissioner’s Office ( ICO ) after personal details were sent to a private security firm during a failed outsourcing bid. Along with partners in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire, the force shared information on more than... read more>>

Rebekah Brooks’ bodyguard charged for concealing phone hacking evidence

Category: Mobile Phone Investigations

8 May, 2013

Rebekah Brooks’ bodyguard is to be charged with hiding potential evidence that could have been used in investigations into phone hacking. The Crown Prosecution Service said that David Johnson, who has been described as a “security professional”, should be charged with pervertin... read more>>

Twitter warns media groups of further hacking attempts

Category: Legal Technologies

3 May, 2013

Media groups should be wary of hacking attempts, Twitter has warned. The social media platform has alerted its users to the threat of theft of data , after a spate of hacking incidents in recent months that have led to widespread changes on business profile pages. In a memo, the service warn... read more>>

Dutch hacker arrested by police

Category: Legal Technologies

30 April, 2013

A Dutch hacker has been arrested by police on suspicion of launching the biggest cyber attack in the history of the internet. The suspect travelled throughout Spain and used his van as a “mobile computing office”, with various antennas installed to it in order to scan frequencies. He... read more>>