Personal data stories
The review could force brands, influencers and retailers to rethink how ads are labelled, priced and disclosed across digital channels.
Travellers face fake payment requests tied to genuine hotel bookings, with exposed reservation data making the messages harder to spot.
Advertisers risk losing household-level accuracy as changing IP addresses disrupt targeting, frequency controls and attribution during campaigns.
Security teams can now apply one policy model across more AI agents as Bedrock Data adds Google Vertex AI to ArgusAI.
More than half of UK and Irish hospitality businesses fear AI could expose customer and company data, a new survey shows.
AI tools have surfaced customer records and other sensitive files at 29% of firms, highlighting weak Microsoft 365 governance.
Despite widespread confidence in governance, UK companies are already seeing AI tools surface sensitive data as Copilot rollouts accelerate.
Businesses face a growing security gap as autonomous AI agents take actions inside corporate systems with far less human oversight.
Employees using work apps on personal devices face wider privacy risks, as several tools collect dozens of data types and share some with advertisers.
Information on about 500,000 volunteers is being offered for sale online, raising fears that stolen health and DNA data could be misused for years.
Employee records featured in almost one in five cases as lost, stolen or mishandled paperwork kept UK breach reports high over five years.
Many women facing miscarriage still receive scant follow-up, and a new app mode aims to fill that gap with free guidance and support.
Growing use of age-check tools and AI is forcing Australian regulators to coordinate more closely on child safety and personal data.
Greater reporting by English councils has pushed logged breaches up 53% in five years, with serious referrals to the ICO also rising.
Complaints over data handling are mounting across UK finance and health, with the ICO seeing the sharpest rise in retail and manufacturing too.
Australian platforms facing tougher age-check rules can now verify users through bank data, without collecting passports or licences.
Public profile details are helping criminals guess passwords and impersonate contacts, with 55% of Australians reusing the same password.
Privacy watchdog concerns raise fresh doubts over whether the government’s age assurance trial overstated vendor compliance and safeguards.
Customer data and service security may be at risk, as nearly one in five UK telecom web servers leak configuration details, a study finds.
Fraud fears in Canada’s online classifieds may ease as buyers and sellers on Kijiji can now verify their identities before trading.
