It is one of the most common ways organisations breach personal data. A newsletter or other email to multiple recipients is sent with the email addresses of all the other recipients visible. A quick Internet search can allow specific individuals to...
In 2005, an alternate reality game called Perplex City was launched. It included 256 puzzle cards that players around the world competed to solve, submitting their solutions on the game’s website. The puzzles were solved fairly quickly with the exception of...
The Labour Party is working with the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) and NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre) to manage a data breach within one of its suppliers, Blackbaud. The breach involved the theft of information pertaining to Labour members and supporters....
We’re starting to get a better idea of how data protection will look over the coming years in light of the UK leaving the EU. In September, the UK government published its proposed reforms to data protection. This covers many aspects...
The Guardian recently dropped the first stories of an investigation it has been conducting alongside other organisations into a form of spyware produced by the NSO Group. When a story like this appears, GRCI Law’s clients often ask us to provide...
Day 371 of the home-working revolution: the rats have comfy new central London homes, small people keep asking me how to do long division and I fear I will never have a Friday fish-and-chip lunch at the pub again. During the...
In the summer of 2018, the incident that privacy obsessives had been waiting for happened: a major data breach, by a household name, in the new GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) era. Ticketmaster was the victim, having learned that a cyber...
