The global pandemic of COVID-19 caused many shops to close and forced people to stay at home more than ever, socialising over Zoom and shopping online. In recent years, there has been an explosion in the growth of internet retailing, with more than half of all UK consumers now shopping online according to retail analysts, GlobalData. With the UK's online shopping spend forecast to grow 30%...
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In just over eight months, one of the most far-reaching and comprehensive pieces of European regulation will change the face of how data is stored, handled and protected. The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) represents one of the most notable changes in worldwide privacy law in two decades and will call for businesses of all sizes to reinforce the processes and safeguards they have...
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More data was lost or stolen in the first half of 2017 than during the whole of 2016 according to reports regarding data breaches. 1.9 billion records were leaked or stolen by criminals up to June 2017, compared to 1.37 billion during all of 2016. Digital security organisation Gemalto’s Breach Level Index was published in September 2017. It revealed that 10.4 million records are swiped or...
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