Tag: Fine

• Wednesday, November 7th 2018 - 08:23 UTC

  Pro-Brexit campaign and insurance company face fines of £135,000 over breaches of data laws

  

  Pro-Brexit campaign group Leave.EU and an insurance company owned by its founder Aaron Banks face total fines of £135,000 over breaches of data laws. It follows an Information Commissioner investigation into the misuse of personal data by political campaigns.

• Friday, October 5th 2018 - 08:34 UTC

  Facebook facing potential £1.2bn fine for a data breach affecting 50 million users

  

  Facebook is facing a potential £1.2bn fine for a data breach which allowed hackers to access the personal information of 50 million users. The Irish Data Protection Commission (IDPC), the lead supervising authority for Facebook in the EU, officially opened its investigation this week after the social media giant admitted hackers could have accessed the accounts of millions of users through a “vulnerability” last Friday.