Recognising the increasingly vital role played by data protection professionals, the third ICO Practitioner Award for Excellence in Data Protection is awarded ton Barry Moult, Information Governance and Privacy Consultant,...
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Blog gan Ian Hulme, Cyfarwyddwr Sicrwydd Rheoleiddiol yr ICO. Wrth i COVID-19 barhau i ysgubo ar draws y Deyrnas Unedig, mae mwy a mwy o bobl yn cael eu sbarduno i helpu'r...
Read MoreThe ICO’s Deputy Commissioner Steve Wood said: “Generalised location data trend analysis is helping to tackle the coronavirus crisis. Where this data is properly anonymised and aggregated, it does not fall...
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A blog by Ian Hulme, Director for Regulatory Assurance at the ICO. As COVID-19 continues to sweep across the UK, more and more people are driven to help the most vulnerable in...
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A council employee has been fined £400 for an offence under the Freedom of Information (FOI) regulations. Nicola Young, town clerk of Whitchurch Town Council, was convicted under Section 77 of...
Read MoreA Town Clerk at Whitchurch Town Council has been prosecuted for intentionally blocking records with the intent to prevent disclosure. An individual had made a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to...
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We all share the same concerns about the spread of the COVID-19 virus. The need for public bodies and health practitioners to be able to communicate directly with people when...
Read MoreA blog by Andrew Laing, ICO Head of Data Protection Complaints We’ve issued two reprimands, which are legal warnings, recently to schools for wrongly disclosing the personal data of children. In the...
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It’s been an exciting, interesting and challenging first six months for the ICO Sandbox – both for those externally involved in the various projects and for the ICO staff working...
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James Dipple-Johnstone (Deputy Commissioner) said: “Information rights regulation, in particular data protection regulation, has an increasingly international dimension. Effective protection of the UK public’s personal information becomes increasingly complex and less...
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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Cathay Pacific Airways Limited £500,000 for failing to protect the security of its customers’ personal data. Between October 2014 and May 2018 Cathay Pacific’s...
Read MoreCathay Pacific Airways Limited £500,000 for failing to protect the security of its customers’ personal data. Between October 2014 and May 2018 Cathay Pacific’s computer systems lacked appropriate security measures which...
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