Users reported what one called a "huge breach of data protection" on Wednesday morning, involving the company's magazine subscription service.
The attack happened on Wednesday, and TalkTalk informed the police the same day but only alerted the UK's data protection watchdog on Thursday afternoon, leading to criticism from several experts.
A large majority of MEPs welcomed the new EU data protection rules in Wednesday's debate, ahead of the final plenary vote on Thursday.
Google is being hauled in front of European data protection regulators on Thursday to explain its handling of the "right to be forgotten" ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
German data protection officials on Monday set a May 26 deadline for Google to hand over a hard drive from one of the roving vehicles it used to compile its 360-degree Street View photo mapping archive.
PARIS -- British data protection officials said Wednesday that Google had committed a "significant breach" of privacy laws when its Street View mapping service gathered e-mail messages, computer passwords and other personal information without the owners' knowledge.
European officials approved long-awaited data protection regulations on Tuesday, the latest effort in the region to give people a greater say over how their digital information is collected and managed.
BERLIN — A German data protection official on Tuesday threatened Google, the world's largest search company, with "unspecified sanctions" if the company did not change its Street View panoramic photo mapping service to conform to the country's strict privacy laws.
Ireland's top data protection watchdog on Monday called Facebook Ireland for an urgent briefing on the company's plans to unify the infrastructure of its Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger services and to encrypt messages on all of those channels end-to-end.
In that blog post, and in a technical note sent to data protection authorities the same day, we said that while Google did collect publicly broadcast SSID information (the WiFi network name) and MAC addresses (the unique number given to a device like a WiFi router) using Street View cars, we did not collect payload data (information sent over the network).
Peter Hustinx, the European data protection supervisor, said last Wednesday that European officials hoped to enact the law by next spring.
