organization:information commissioner's office

Uber fined £385,000 for data breach affecting millions of passengers
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/27/uber-fined-385000-for-data-breach-affecting-millions-of-passengers-hack

Firm failed to tell 35 million users and 3.7 million drivers their data was hacked in 2016 Uber’s European operation has been fined £385,000 for a data breach that affected almost 3 million British users, the Information Commissioner’s Office has announced. In November 2016, attackers obtained credentials to access Uber’s cloud servers and downloaded 16 large files, including the records of 35 million users worldwide. The records included passengers’ full names, phone numbers, email addresses, (...)

#Uber #données #procès #hacking #ICO-UK

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UK fines Facebook £500,000 for failing to protect user data
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/25/facebook-fined-uk-privacy-access-user-data-cambridge-analytica

Decision by information commissioner comes after Cambridge Analytica scandal Facebook has been fined £500,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, after allowing third party developers to access user information without sufficient consent. The ICO announcement on Thursday upholds its initial decision in July. The fine, which represents a drop in the ocean for a company that brought in $40.7bn (£31.5bn) in global revenue in 2017, was the (...)

#CambridgeAnalytica #Facebook #élections #manipulation #électeurs #profiling #BigData

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Watchdog investigates links between Canadian data firm and Vote Leave
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/11/watchdog-investigates-links-between-data-firm-aggregateiq-and-leave-cam

Information Commissioner’s Office inquiry into AggregateIQ is one of many started by ICO in response to data misuse claims The Information Commissioner’s Office is investigating the relationship between the Canadian data firm AggregateIQ, Vote Leave and a number of other leave campaigns, the body has said in a report published on Wednesday. The investigation is one of the many started by the ICO in response to reporting by the Observer and Guardian suggesting that widespread data misuse may (...)

#AggregateIQ #CambridgeAnalytica #Facebook #algorithme #élections #manipulation #données #BigData (...)

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WhatsApp will not share user data with Facebook until it complies with GDPR, ICO closes investigation
▻https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/14/whatsapp-will-not-share-user-data-with-facebook-until-it-complies-with-g

Facebook, its popular messaging app WhatsApp, and the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) have reached a truce in their long-running investigation over how Facebook and WhatsApp share user data. The ICO today announced that it has closed its investigation and concluded that WhatsApp and Facebook, in fact, cannot and do not share user data for anything other than basic data processing. The two most significant upshots of this : WhatsApp (and Facebook) will not be fined ; and the ICO (...)

#Facebook #WhatsApp #données #BigData #Règlement_Général_sur_la_Protection_des_Données_(RGPD) #G29 (...)

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