Policy & legislation

The move follows the French example and is aimed at enabling Spain's tax system to deal with the digital world

Calls to treat companies like Facebook as being “somewhere in between” a newspaper and a telco are rejected

If your computer systems are attacked, is the law effective enough to put those criminals behind bars?

Not all cloud products support the same level of security, so what should organisations be looking out for?

The government waters down its Online Harms proposals, but tech companies could still face fines

Members of his team argue they were pen-testing the Labour Party membership database

Both companies face an "own-volition statutory inquiry" after complaints made to the regulators

The controversial copyright directive won the approval of EU member states

A look at the UK's national data laws and how GDPR fits into the puzzle

The UK's competition watchdog wants new powers that rival international regulators

Sky, Jaguar Land Rover, Three and HSBC are said to be sidestepping IR35 rules with unfair policies

The approved resolution aims to see more chargers get recycled

EC wants European companies to have better access to the bloc’s vast quantities of data

ORG warns UK government not to let US push it into weaker data protection laws

73% of Americans would also pay to ensure their data isn’t sold to third parties

Security company will ask all users of its free antivirus if they are willing to let their browsing data be shared with third parties

The UK faces the challenge of convincing Europe that its post-Brexit data protection will be adequate

Brexit's effect on data laws demands that data management remains a top business priority for UK organisations

The startup's facial recognition tech is used by law enforcement and can match people to images from multiple social networking sites

The 30 year-old legislation also prevents cyber security professionals from doing their jobs, it's claimed

Limitless fines have been proposed for those who break election rules

Regulators have received 160,000 data breach reports, with UK firms third-most reported across Europe