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Crackdown on claims companies sending spam car finance texts

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Officials raided homes and businesses and seized laptops, phones and paperwork in clampdown on nuisance firmsLaptops, mobile phones and documents have been seized after officials carried out search warrants in a crackdown on claims companies plaguing people with spam text messages about the car finance mis-selling scandal.On Wednesday the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) executed […]

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Reddit fined £14.5m in UK over use of under-13s’ data

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Information Commissioner’s Office imposes largest fine yet for a breach of children’s privacy The UK information regulator has fined the social news service Reddit £14.5m for using the data of children under the age of 13 unlawfully and potentially exposing them to inappropriate and harmful content.The hefty punishment from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is

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UK privacy watchdog opens inquiry into X over Grok AI sexual deepfakes

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Information Commissioner’s Office to investigate whether Elon Musk’s companies have complied with data protection lawThe Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has opened formal investigations into X and xAI over whether Elon Musk’s companies have complied with data protection law after the chatbot Grok was used to generate sexual deepfake images without consent.More details soon … Continue

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