Following an attack by hackers, three million customer records were put at risk and details of 5,000 payment cards were compromised. Had PCIDSS rules for processing credit card data been adhered to? Chloe Deng reports on the ICO’s findings.
On 12 March 2015, the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Commencement No.11) Order 2015 became law and quietly revolutionised Magistrates’ powers to impose fines for breaches of advertising, trading and data laws. Stephen Groom reports.
In sponsored search results, CTN Solutions and uk-phone.com both promoted their “Easyjet Customer Services” helplines but had no connection with the airline. Both included disclaimers. Did they work? Ben Dunham reports on the ASA’s decision.
Alcohol Concern complained to the ASA about ads promoting a new whisky brand in the Diageo portfolio. They said featuring the retired footballer was irresponsible given his appeal to youngsters. What was the ASA’s view? Fiona Schneider reports.
An infographic from Jeroen Lub and Kevin vant Klooster of Osborne Clarke Amsterdam forecasts a more aggressive privacy law enforcement landscape in the year ahead with fines of up to €810,000 or 10% of turnover for data law breaches.
The euroclinix healthcare website featured a logo with a green tick and “PharmaCheck Know your pharmacy” linked to information about the General Pharmaceutical Council and euroclinix’s owner Hexpress. Misleading? Fiona Schneider reports.
An opinion from the French “Abusive Clauses Commission” has complained of 46 provisions in social media site terms of use and privacy policies that in its view are unfair. Georgina Graham and Gregoire Dumas report.
An Italian supermarket chain promoted offers. A customer travelled to a branch but offer products were not available. A fine for breach of EU unfair commercial practices laws ensued, but the retailer appealed to the CJEU. Why? Thomas Spanyol reports.
It now seems probable that the threshold for six figure penalties to be issued for breaches of privacy and electronic communications laws will be lowered dramatically very soon. But will the change extend to emails and cookies? Stephen Groom reports.
New regulations have come into force which liberalise the rules governing what companies and LLPs can call themselves and the trading disclosures they have to make Tom Harvey and Nick Thody report.
After 214 complaints to ICO and the “do not call” list administrator the Telephone Preference Service, enforcement action was taken over cold calls to often vulnerable consumers despite their numbers being on the TPS list. Fiona Schneider reports.
The UK’s data watchdog has updated its flagship Guide to Data Protection and advised that all previous versions are disregarded. Ben Dunham reports.
