Firms found in breach of UK law on customer data
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A major mobile phone service provider and the UK's largest catalog-shopping service have both been criticized by that government's Information Commissioner's Office for privacy violations affecting employees and consumers. Critics charge that the ICO is all hat and very few cattle.
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The transfer of confidential banking records by a Belgium-based company to U.S. authorities for use in anti-terrorism investigations breached Belgian and likely European Union data privacy rules, top government officials said Thursday.
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Britain's motor industry risks being fined heavily after admitting that all car manufacturers may have colluded to share sensitive British sales data for more than 20 years, a newspaper reported.
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Some firms find it a challenge to comply with new law on retaining digital records for court.
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InfoWorld - The U.K.&#39;s financial services regulator has levied a heavy fine against the nation&#39;s largest building society over a stolen laptop containing confidential customer information.
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Business & money: Ill-judged comments saw deluge of customers reclaiming bank charges, says lawyer
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A report reveals the top places in England for breaching anti-social behaviour orders.
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M&S broke data protection rules over a stolen laptop containing details of 26,000 staff, a watchdog says.
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A consortium that handles money transfers broke privacy rules when it gave data to the C.I.A., a commission said.
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A database of internet service provider Bulldog was used to defraud many customers, the BBC learns.
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14,000 accounts suspended after latest data breach Skipton Financial Services has confessed to losing a laptop containing records of 14,000 customers. Information exposed by the breach includes names, addresses, National Insurance numbers, and fund investment details of clients of Skipton's Fidelity FundsNetwork.â¦
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FTC charges that Petco Web site left customer data exposed.
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Some of the world's biggest computer firms are accused of imposing unfair contracts on customers who buy their software.
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Data on more than 100 million U.S. consumers has been compromised in the past two years, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.
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'Frankly horrifying' The Information Commissioner Richard Thomas said British chief executives need to take the safety of customers' and employees' data more seriously after a series of breaches over the last year.â¦
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So-called data brokers used false identities to obtain private information, wireless firm charges.
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While many high-tech firms scored well in a new study of how they treat customers online, more than a third of the surveyed companies still share personal data without permission.