IT Essentials: Regulators hate this one simple trick

Deny, ignore, and carry on with business as usual

Tom Allen
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IT Essentials: Regulators hate this one simple trick

Companies have the power to ignore regulators, but is there a change on the horizon?

It turns out that global law has a loophole: you can save loads of money in fines by just ignoring them. At least, that's what infamous web scraping facial recognition firm Clearview AI has found t...

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