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Thank you Sir Martyn. And thank you for kindly agreeing to chair this conference. I want to begin by telling you about my first day at the ICO. After I’d had been...

The three regulators responsible for making sure organisations understand and obey the rules around fundraising are holding a joint conference aimed to inform, educate and provide clarity to the sector....

Credit broker Digitonomy Ltd has been fined £120,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for being responsible for millions of marketing texts sent without proper consent. Between April 2015 and February...

The ICO has conducted a follow-up assessment of the actions taken by NHS Digital (formerly known as HSCIC) in relation to the undertaking it signed on 19 April 2016. The follow-up...

A business owner has been prosecuted for failing to register with the ICO because she was using in-store CCTV. Kavitha Karthikesu, pleaded guilty to the offence under section 17 of the...

By Elizabeth Denham, Information Commissioner. You only need glance at your mobile phone to see how international data protection is today. Apps developed 5,000 miles away on America’s West Coast,...

Companies selling marketing lists are breaking the law if people haven’t been told how their information will be used. That’s the warning from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) as it fines...

The Information Commissioner’s Office has informed eleven charities that it intends to fine them for breaching the Data Protection Act. The charities will be given 28 days to respond to the...

Rob Luke joins the ICO today as Deputy Commissioner (Policy). He was previously British High Commissioner to Malta, and has also served overseas in Brazil and Paris as well as in...

Saturday January 28, 2017 marks the eleventh annual Data Protection Day. To celebrate, the ICO will highlight information rights and privacy issues over the next two days. We’ll be focusing on...

A former recruitment consultant has been prosecuted for taking client records containing personal information to her new job. Rebecca Gray pleaded guilty at Warrington Magistrates’ Court on 18 January to a...

Introduction Thank you Julie, and many thanks for inviting me to speak today. It is a great pleasure and a privilege to address you this Wednesday morning. What an honour for my...