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Council fined after second offence in two years, but further loss prevented by laptop encryption

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TechWeekEurope is invited into an Anonymous team's IRC session to learn about the group's aims and watch its big botnets in action

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TechWeekEurope learns an Anonymous splinter group took down Theresa May's website, whilst targeting the ICO and the Supreme Court

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The ICO deadline for cookie compliance is upon us but there is little evidence of action and fines could mount up on 26 May, warns Eric Doyle

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The ICO looks set to let Google off again, even after findings show workers knew what they were doing when collecting user data

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An NHS body in Wales gets hit with a £70,000 fine after sensitive data is sent to the wrong patient

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A handful of Google workers knew of code, but tech giant says more senior management were unaware

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The commissioner tells TechWeekEurope there is no bias towards the private sector, despite figures that would suggest otherwise

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ICO research confirms the fact that valuable data is still on many hard drives even after they are supposedly wiped

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