The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined a London-based pharmacy £275,000 for failing to ensure the security of special category data. Doorstep Dispensaree Ltd, which supplies medicines to customers and care...
Read MoreColleagues from the ICO’s access to information and compliance department share their experiences and involvement in raising awareness of our regulation of access to information legislation. Access to Information in Turbulent...
Read MoreA former Reablement Officer at Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council has been prosecuted for accessing social care records without authorisation. An internal investigation by the Council found that Ms Shaw had inappropriately...
Read MoreA 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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