A new data protection regime for the UK must provide a much-needed boost for journalism by helping publishers to better monetise the news they distribute online, the News Media Association has said today. Tomorrow (Friday), Oliver Dowden is expected to...

New Zealand’s Privacy Commissioner John Edwards is the Government’s preferred candidate for Information Commissioner, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden announced today. He will replace Elizabeth Denham whose term as Information Commissioner ends on 31 October. Mr Edwards will now...

The “significant data advantages” enjoyed by Google and Facebook which stifle fair competition exist at such a scale that they are “insurmountable without regulatory intervention,” the Competition and Markets Authority and Information Commissioner’s Office have said...

      The Information Commissioner’s Office has announced that it is resuming its investigation into real time bidding and the adtech industry The investigation, which the News Media Association and its members have fully engaged with, was paused in May last year...

Representatives of European media sectors called on the new European Commission to adopt a comprehensive and ambitious approach to EU media policy, to support the sector’s competitiveness and cultural diversity, in a joint conference organised and opened by Vice President...

YouTube will pay a record $170 million to settle allegations by the Federal Trade Commission and the New York Attorney General in the United States that the video sharing service illegally collected personal information from children without their parents’...

Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham is the latest speaker to be confirmed for this year’s Society of Editors Conference in London in November. The 20th anniversary event at Stationers’ Hall will mark two decades of the Society’s campaigning work on behalf...

Facebook’s call for regulation is nothing more than smokescreen designed to fend off an enforced breakup of the business, media commentator Ray Snoddy has argued. In a stinging piece for Mediatel this week, Mr Snoddy said Nick Clegg’s recent speech in...

Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has highlighted a number of concerns around adtech in a new report but said that the ICO wants to take a “measured and iterative approach” to the “complex” market, continuing to engage with the sector,...