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The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has fined three businesses a combined £6 million for misleading sales tactics. Wayfair received the largest penalty, £4.8 million, for time-limited offers that did not end when it said they would. Appliances Direct was fined £1.2 million and Gold’s Gym £45,000. The decisions were announced on 14 October. […]

India’s rules for Consent Managers come into force on November 13 2026. From that date, any company that wants to act as one must register with the Data Protection Board of India. The Digital Personal Data Protection Rules 2025 were notified on 13 November 2025 and are being phased in. Rule 4, covering the registration […]

EU member states have again failed to agree a Council position on the Digital Omnibus, the package meant to simplify the GDPR and the Data Act. The draft text that leaked earlier this month keeps the consent requirement that covers email tracking pixels. Where things stand The Irish Presidency’s compromise was due before EU ambassadors […]

Phishing emails are now being written for two readers: the person in the inbox and the AI assistant that summarises it. Not much of a suprise.. but this is where we are now. Barracuda Research published the findings on 7 October. Threat analyst Guruprasad Kenja describes emails with two layers. The visible layer is ordinary […]

Nearly one in ten phishing emails tracked by KnowBe4 this summer was a genuine notification from a real platform such as DocuSign or QuickBooks. Those messages pass SPF, DKIM and DMARC because the platform sent them. KnowBe4 Threat Lab published the figures on 9 October in a post titled The Rise of Legitimate-Service Phishing. Of […]