Digital Intelligence

Facebook has launched a new privacy tool "Off-Facebook Activity" in a bid to win back the trust of its users after the Cambridge Analytica data scandal last year.

21/08/2019  |  Full story...

Brands are experiencing unintended consequences of regulation such as GDPR and Brexit, including impacts on the way they approach domain management and security, according to new research.

16/08/2019  |  Full story...

More than one million fingerprints and a host of usernames and passwords have been exposed on an unsecured database hosted by a security platform that lists the Metropolitan Police among its clients.

15/08/2019  |  Full story...

Facebook has been paying hundreds of outside contractors to transcribe voice chats carried out using the company's Messenger app, according to a news report.

15/08/2019  |  Full story...

Developers in King's Cross have defended using facial recognition cameras across its 67-acre central London site, saying there are "sophisticated systems in place to protect" the public's privacy.

13/08/2019  |  Full story...

Google and Apple are suspending some of their voice data-review practices, after it was revealed that both firms allow humans to listen to private conversations on smart speakers and voice apps.

06/08/2019  |  Full story...

Google is investigating the source who leaked information about how it reviews and transcribes recordings from Google Home smart speakers and Google Assistant virtual assistant.

15/07/2019  |  Full story...

The US Federal Trade Commission has voted to approve a fine of about $5bn for Facebook over privacy violations, according to a report.

15/07/2019  |  Full story...

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a second fine this week to hotel chain Marriott for more than £99 million under the GDPR.

11/07/2019  |  Full story...

British Airways is facing a record fine of £183m for last year's breach of its security systems, which lead to the theft of customer data from the airlines website.

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09/07/2019  |  Full story...

Facebook uses were given a rare behind-the scenes glimpse of how their photos are automatically tagged by the social network, when an outage showed text instead of their profile images.

08/07/2019  |  Full story...

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...