The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) approach of only fining public sector organisations “in the most serious cases” is under fire from privacy campaigners at Open Rights Group (ORG), who say ...

Understanding the ICO’s approach to assessing financial penalties should be a key element of an organisation’s data protection strategy and risk profile. In an era when data protection infringements ...

Pity the UK’s regulators. One moment they are minding the interests of citizens when a Prime Minister blunders into view, scraps the Industrial Strategy, and tells them they have a new purpose: ...

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office’s (the ICO’s) latest Annual Report summarises its accomplishments and priorities, including last year’s enforcement actions. Based on our review of the report, ...

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has called for stronger protections for people living with HIV who are being denied “basic dignity and privacy” by repeated data breaches that disclose ...

An NHS software provider could be fined £6m by the ICO for failing to protect against a data hack which severely impacted GPs in 2022. As first revealed by Pulse, parts of the NHS 111 service suffered ...

The Home Office has received a formal warning from the data protection regulator over the government’s use of GPS ankle tags to monitor the location and movement of asylum seekers who arrive in the UK ...