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Security researcher Bob Diachenko has discovered an unsecured database containing personal information of 106 million foreign nationals who have visited Thailand in the past decade.

A new information commissioner will be put in charge of overseeing the transformation. John Edwards, currently the privacy commissioner of New Zealand looks likely to be given the nod to replace current supremo Elizabeth Denham. Dowden said: “Now that we have left the EU I’m determined to seize the opportunity by developing a world-leading data policy that will deliver a Brexit dividend for individuals and businesses across the UK.

Facial recognition should be banned in Europe because of its “deep and non-democratic intrusion” into people’s private lives says the the EU’s privacy watchdog, the European Data Protection Supervisor, (EDPS).

Legal chiefs are increasingly being tasked with maintaining their organizations’ data protection and cybersecurity in the wake of high profile breaches and growing privacy legislation, according to an Association of Corporate Counsel report released Tuesday.

The Facebook-owned messenger WhatsApp dropped the ball with Italian data chiefs when they recently changed the app’s privacy policy.

More companies – particularly social media firms – may follow Facebook’s footsteps in…

Don’t expect tracking methods such as browser fingerprinting to disappear anytime soon, even…

Facebook is again in hot water after an article alleged it struck deals…