Digital Intelligence

Personal Facebook data, including account names, comments and likes, was publicly accessible on the internet, the company has been forced to admit.

05/04/2019  |  Full story...

IBM has been accused of using Flickr photos for a facial-recognition project, without the permission of people in the images.

14/03/2019  |  Full story...

Thousands of people in Moscow and two other Russian cities gathered to march against their government's new internet restriction laws on Sunday.

12/03/2019  |  Full story...

Trust in advertising has from around 50% favourable in the early ’90s to just 25% in 2018. A new report from the Advertising Association outlined the key problems and new actions that can be taken to reverse the trend.

06/03/2019  |  Full story...

An astounding 1,768 dark web tags were found on websites belonging to companies in the Fortune 100, causing a total average website latency of 5.2 seconds, with the 20 worst performing sites showing a total website latency of 11.1 seconds, according to new research.

19/02/2019  |  Full story...

Facebook paid children as young as 13 to install software on their phones which let the company collect data on how they used its competitors' apps, according to a new report.

31/01/2019  |  Full story...

Scientists have discovered it's possible to create a 95% accurate profile of non-users on social media using their friends' data, leading to so-called ‘shadow profiles’.

24/01/2019  |  Full story...

6 months on from the introduction of European GDPR, 95% of users expressed their consent, versus a remarkably low 5% who refused cookies, according to new data.

27/11/2018  |  Full story...

Facebook has been fined £500,000 by a UK court over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, an amount which, based on last year’s revenue, the social network makes in less than 9 minutes of operation.

25/10/2018  |  Full story...

Retailers across the EU have halved the number of automated marketing emails they send to consumers since May 25th when GDPR came into force. But those emails are now 30% more likely to be opened and produce 2x more value in terms of purchases according to a new study.

24/10/2018  |  Full story...

Identity thefts, celebrity photo leaks, and other data breaches happen because of disproportionate trust in smartphone security, according to new research.

10/10/2018  |  Full story...

The UK's High Court has blocked a court case against Google, which claimed the tech giant had collected sensitive information from over 4 million iPhone users using a loophole.

09/10/2018  |  Full story...

Facebook is launching two video call devices that use is Messenger platform and Alexa’s smart assistant, but the AI zooming feature is sparking privacy concerns.

08/10/2018  |  Full story...

A new app designed to help the Conservative Conference in the UK this week has sparked a PR disaster, after the app let anyone to see the mobile numbers of attendees and to change their photos and details.

02/10/2018  |  Full story...

Over three quarters of 16-34 year olds say GDPR doesn’t go far enough – yet only 11% carefully consider before accepting cookie banners, according to new research.

24/09/2018  |  Full story...

The majority (59%) of customers believe their personal information is vulnerable to a security breach, and 54% don’t believe that companies have their best interests in mind, according to new research.

11/09/2018  |  Full story...

Consumer trust in brands has fallen 3% year on year, and now half of UK consumers find it difficult to know which brands to trust.

04/09/2018  |  Full story...

Facebook has begun assigning users a reputation score, designed to predict how trustworthy they are, as the social network looks to fight the spread of fake news.

23/08/2018  |  Full story...

Google Maps services on Android and iPhone devices store records of a user’s location even after they have enabled privacy settings that claim to halt the practice, according to a new report.

16/08/2018  |  Full story...

As one of the most dominant smart devices on the market, do we really know what, and who, we're welcoming into our homes when purchasing a secondhand Amazon Echo? In this video, online security experts vpnMentor investigated the accessibility of Amazon Echo by hacking into one unsuspecting family’s device - highlighting how easily it could be tampered with.

10/08/2018  |  Full story...

Only one in every fifty apps is compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) according to a new study.

09/08/2018  |  Full story...

Post-GDPR research reveals that 73% of consumers avoid long contracts, opting instead for flexible options – even if they are more expensive.

03/08/2018  |  Full story...

The IAB Europe Using Data Effectively in Programmatic White Paper (first published in November 2016) has been updated to reflect the changing nature of the European data landscape.

25/07/2018  |  Full story...

Facebook has suspended analytics firm Crimson Hexagon amid apparent concerns it may have carried out wide-spread surveillance of users.

23/07/2018  |  Full story...

Consumers would like more control over their data and greater insight into what the benefits are to them, according to new global research.

03/07/2018  |  Full story...