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It’s time to book your Information Asset Owner Training!

Information Asset owners are the gateway to excellent data protection, data quality and secure information sharing for police forces, local government and many other public sector bodies. Benefits of training Information Asset Owners It is vital to train Information Asset Owners (IAOs) because they are responsible for managing and protecting the organization’s critical information assets. […]

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tracking pixels and cybersecurity

Tracking pixels blamed for US hospital data breach

Tracking pixels have been blamed for a cyber-attack on a New York hospital, which may have exposed patient data. These tracking and analytical tools were used by the hospital itself and could have been at the root of their own exposure and data breach. This is the fourth notable breach of recent times involving tracking […]

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TikTok gets huge fine for abuse of childrens data privacy rights

ICO Fines TikTok Over Children’s Data

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued one of its biggest-ever fines (£12.7m) to the TikTok platform. This fine relates to the platform’s failure to protect the privacy of children. Although the site has a policy of over -13s only unless with parental consent, it would appear that many accounts were set up by under-thirteens […]

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