Digital Intelligence

Apple has launched a new "sign in with Apple" tool similar to those offered by Facebook and Google.

06/06/2019  |  Full story...

A year after the GDPR came into effect, a new study suggests many large UK businesses are struggling to process requests from customers who want to access the personal information stored about them.

24/05/2019  |  Full story...

One year on from the introduction of stricter EU privacy laws, marketers mail lists have been reduced but mobile app lists have grown, with firms sending more notifications to customers than before, according to new global research.

23/05/2019  |  Full story...

The Association for Online Publishing (AOP) has announced the launch of the AOP Protocol that aims to reduce risk and create greater transparency in the age of GDPR.

09/05/2019  |  Full story...

Almost one-quarter of brands have had their domain targeted by cyber criminals with brands taking a siloed approach to domain security and management, according to new research.

07/05/2019  |  Full story...

Trade body IAB has updated its technical specifications for a GDPR-related framework aimed at helping advertisers, brands and technology providers comply with the European Union’s privacy laws, introduced last year.

26/04/2019  |  Full story...

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...