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Data-protection

Posts tagged with "data-protection"

21 June 2017 in Home & Energy

Queen’s Speech 2017: did it deliver for you?

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Queen's Speech 2017

After a tumultuous few weeks in British politics, the Government tried to introduce some certainty in today’s Queen’s Speech by setting out a big agenda of new legislation it wants to pass in the next two years. So what do you make of today’s proposals?

(Queen’s Speech 2017…)

16 June 2017 in Money

Do you live in a fraud hotspot?

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UK fraud hotspot

Latest Which? research has mapped fraud hotspots in the UK and revealed the ways that you could be targeted. So do you recognise any of these scams?

(more on fraud hotspots…)

17 November 2016 in Technology

Do you always erase your personal data on old devices?

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smartphone

Last year, my flat was burgled. I was only just in the process of moving in, and so they got barely anything for their efforts apart from three battered laptops.  (more on deleting personal data from gadgets…)

6 October 2016 in Money, Technology

Update: TalkTalk offers compensation for data breach – but is it enough?

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TalkTalk logo

After being hit by a cyber-attack that saw hackers access the details of thousands of its customers, TalkTalk has come out with an offer of compensation. But is it enough?

(more on TalkTalk’s data breach…)

20 June 2016 in Technology

Where’s the consumer protection when data protection fails?

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Data breach

Eight months after TalkTalk’s data breach, the Culture Media and Sport Committee has published findings from its inquiry into cyber security and the protection of personal data.

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26 May 2016 in Technology

How much do smartphone apps know about you?

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App data

From dating to fitness, travel to cooking – I bet you have a wealth of apps on your smartphone. But every tap, swipe and download, creates a mass of data that’s sent back to the app’s HQ.

(more on app data…)

17 January 2016 in Money, Shopping, Technology

ID theft: how much info are you revealing online?

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For years we’ve been told to shred paperwork revealing personal details – such as our address or date of birth – before throwing it away, lest an ID thief finds it. But are we revealing too much about ourselves online?

(more on ID theft)

5 September 2015 in Money, Shopping, Technology

What does your card know about you?

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Credit cards

Tech is undoubtedly changing the way we spend, but how far should we be willing to go in order to get money off? Is it really worth ‘selling’ your spending data for a better deal?

(more about spending data…)

19 March 2015 in Shopping, Technology

Shops are spying on you – but does it bother you?

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Eye spying on you

Threatened by competition from online retailers, shops are introducing new technologies to find out more about you, the customer. Do you find shops analysing your behaviour creepy, or are you happy to accept it?

(more about spying shops…)

12 June 2012 in Money, Technology

What if your Facebook profile could influence credit decisions?

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It’s been reported that Germany’s biggest credit agency is planning to trawl its customers’ social network accounts to gather information to help them credit check and identify ‘opportunities’. But could it happen here?

(more about data privacy…)

7 June 2012 in Technology

LinkedIn data breach has given me a password wake-up call

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LinkedIn has been hacked, eHarmony has been hacked… When 8 million passwords from popular social networks were leaked, I thought it about time I took more care of my own passwords.

(more on using the same passwords…)

28 May 2012 in Technology

What’s on your old hard drive? ‘Delete’ does not mean destroy

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Have you ever sold an old computer? Given it to charity? Or sent it to the scrapheap? If so, you could be among thousands of Brits who may have unwittingly put their personal data at risk in the process.

(more about data recovery…)

7 March 2012 in Technology

Dear smartphone, don’t share my data with advertisers

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Own an Android smartphone? Some app providers have been accused of sharing your personal data with advertisers, and without clear consent. Another day, another story of user data being shared without permission…

(more about sharing your phone data…)

20 February 2012 in Technology

iPass away – do my digital downloads die with me?

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If you’ve built up a proud collection of books, records and DVDs, you’d expect to be able to pass them on to your next of kin. But what happens to all of the downloads you’ve paid for during your life?

(more about digital inheritance…)

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