Tag: Data privacy
News and information from the Advent IM team.
Police in England and Wales taking ‘excessive personal data’ from mobile phones
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
Information commissioner says victims and witnesses could be put off reporting crimes and calls for new code. Read story by Owen Bowcott in The Guardian.
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Blasé directors put business data at risk
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Senior employees and company directors are putting their businesses and careers at grave risk with cavalier and blasé attitudes to cyber security, according to new statistics on insider threats produced by Egress. Its figures revealed that 78% of directors have intentionally shared data against company policy in the past 12 months, compared with just 10% […]
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UK to diverge from EU data protection rules, Johnson confirms
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The United Kingdom will seek to diverge from EU data protection rules and establish their own ‘sovereign’ controls in the field, the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday (3 February). His comments came despite the EU affirming that the UK should “fully respect EU data protection rules.” Read more via Euractiv
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