I feel like I have been saying the same thing for years regarding the Data Protection Act but its about 15 years since I submitted my first registration with the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) and still I regularly come across businesses who are completely unaware of their legal obligations when it comes to handling contact [...]
This week there have been a couple of things in the news about hackers accessing passwords. First LinkedIn were targeted and then eHarmony and Last.fm suffered a similar fate. Also this week, Mitt Romney was compromised when someone managed to access his Hotmail and Dropbox accounts. The LinkedIn passwords of 6.5 million users were posted online but in [...]
