3 June 2019
A blog by Gill Bull, Director of Freedom of Information
At the beginning of May, Parliament declared a ‘climate change emergency’ and concerns about the environment make news headlines...
Alex Hubbard, Senior Policy Officer at the ICO, looks at some of the key themes identified in the ICO and The Alan Turing Institute’s interim report about explanations of AI...
As
part of our AI auditing framework blog series, Reuben Binns, our Research Fellow in
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Peter Brown, Technology Policy Group Manager, and
Valeria Gallo, Technology Policy Adviser, look at how...
Last year we began taking action against organisations for non-payment of the data protection fee, sending out a clear message that those who didn’t pay risked a fine.
We stepped that...
10 May 2019
As technology takes ever greater strides, so organisations and businesses are harnessing its capabilities to help manage their contact with customers, including using it for means of identification...
In our data-driven world, it’s more important than ever to know who is using people’s personal data, and why.
Today the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is launching the ‘Be Data Aware’ campaign to...
The ICO has fined a PPI claims management company £120,000 for sending unlawful spam texts about its services.
Hall and Hanley Ltd of Devonshire Street North, Manchester were responsible for sending...
An ICO investigation into HMRC’s Voice ID service was prompted by a complaint from Big Brother Watch about the department’s conduct. The investigation focussed on the use of voice authentication...