Regulation
Bitcoin loses third of its value in its week as regulation hits
Bitcoin has lost nearly a third of its value in just a week as cryptocurrencies come under renewed regulatory pressure.
Facebook fined £500k over Cambridge Analytica data scandal (10 minutes of its revenue)
Facebook has been fined £500,000 by a UK court over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, an amount which, based on last year’s revenue, the social network makes in less than 9 minutes of operation.
GDPR one month on: Large rise in privacy complaints across Europe
The ICO has reported a sharp rise in complaints after GDPR, from a rise in breach notifications from organisations, as well as more data protection complaints following the activation of the law.
Reddit overtakes Facebook as third most popular site in US
Social forum site Reddit has overtaken Facebook to become the third most visited platform in the US, according to rankings on Alexa, the Amazon-owned Web traffic analysing platform.
Days before GDPR, consumers reveal what they really dislike people doing without permission
With the headlines full of stories about how unprepared marketers are for GDPR, new research from Databoxer gets to the crux of what British consumers hate people doing without getting permission first — whether it’s brands or even friends, family and strangers.