A former Social Services Support Officer at Dorset County Council has been prosecuted for accessing Social Care records without authorisation. An internal investigation found that Ms Shipsey had inappropriately accessed the...
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Paul Arnold, Deputy Chief Executive Officer/Executive Officer 03 December 2019 We have launched a campaign to contact all registered companies in the UK reminding them of their legal responsibility to pay a...
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2 December 2019 A blog aimed at data scientists, app developers, business owners, CEOs or data protection practitioners, whose organisations are using, or thinking about using, artificial intelligence (AI) to support,...
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The ICO’s Steve Wood has been appointed as chair of the OECD’s Working Party on Data Governance and Privacy. The working party plays an important role in the OECD’s international work...
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Gill Bull, ICO’s Director of Freedom of Information and Compliance, speech at the British Records Association in London, 13 November 2019.Original script may differ from delivered version. “Hello my name is...
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By Simon McDougall, Executive Director – Technology Policy and Innovation, ICO 18 November 2019 How do we balance the interests of society against individual rights, on issues like facial recognition technology? How do we...
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By Ian Hulme, Director for Regulatory Assurance. 14 November 2019 Imagine if your medical records, information about your sex life or your political opinions were put into the public domain so anyone...
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The Information Commissioner has sent the following letter to the political parties in relation to the use of data in political campaigning. The letter was sent to the following parties: Conservatives DUP Greens Labour Lib...
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By Elizabeth Denham, Information Commissioner. As far back as Sir Robert Peel, the powers of the police have always been seen as dependent on public support of their actions. It’s an...
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In 2017 the Information Commissioner's Office ("ICO") commenced a formal investigation into the misuse of personal data in political campaigns. As part of that investigation, on 24 October 2018, the ICO...
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As the initial Call for Input into the development of the ICO AI Auditing Framework comes to an end, Simon McDougall, Executive Director for Technology and Innovation, reflects on some...
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