Guest blog: Working for a regulator like the ICO
As the ICO seeks to employ a Post Doctoral Research Fellowship in Artificial Intelligence (AI), the former post holder, Professor Reuben Binns, reflects on his time in the role.
Read More »ICO urges businesses to act now as Children’s Code comes into force in six months
Initial findings from industry research set up by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) shows that three quarters of businesses surveyed are aware of the Children’s Code.
Read More »Supporting you to meet your information access requests
Our aim at the ICO is to ensure organisations provide the public with timely access to information. We speak regularly about supporting you to meet your requirements, and we’ve published…
Read More »UK organisations using SolarWinds Orion platform should check whether personal data has been affected
SolarWinds was the victim of a cyber-attack where a vulnerability was inserted into its Orion platform. Organisations using the compromised Orion platform could potentially have allowed an attacker to move…
Read More »ICO statement in response to the publication of a draft adequacy decision from the European Commission
The European Commission has today published its draft UK adequacy decisions. If adopted these decisions will allow for continued free flow of personal data from the EU into the UK….
Read More »Update to the joint statement on global privacy expectations of video teleconferencing companies
On 21 July 2020 the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and five other data protection and privacy regulators from around the world jointly signed an open letter to companies providing video…
Read More »ICO launches data analytics toolkit
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is urging all organisations considering using data analytics on personal data to look at its new toolkit.
Read More »ICO statement in response to UK Government’s announcement on the extended period for personal data flows, that will allow time to complete the adequacy process
The Government has announced that the Treaty agreed with the EU will allow personal data to flow freely from the EU (and EEA) to the UK, until adequacy decisions have…
Read More »ICO and National Privacy Commission, Philippines, sign Memorandum of Understanding
UK Information Commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, and her counterpart in the Philippines, Commissioner and Chairman Raymund Enriquez Liboro (NPC), have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).
Read More »Motor industry employee sentenced in ICO Computer Misuse Act prosecution
A motor industry employee has been sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment, suspended for two years, in a prosecution brought by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
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