Food delivery giant Just Eat and motoring site Autotrader are among five firms being investigated as part of a probe into fake and misleading online reviews by the UK's competition watchdog. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which is also examining funeral firm Dignity, reviews site Feefo and fresh pasta chain Pasta Evangelists, is looking at whether they have broken consumer law.

Yoti has been fined 950,000 euros (roughly US$1.1 million) by Spanish data protection regulator AEPD for the handling of biometrics and other data within its digital identity app. The regulator has ruled Yoti violated three clauses of the EU’s General Data Protection Rule (GDPR).

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