ICO reaches agreement with Easylife Ltd
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has reached an agreement with Easylife Ltd (Easylife) to reduce the monetary penalty notice (MPN), issued for breaching the Data Protection Act 2018, to £250,000.
Read More »ICO issues reprimand to the Metropolitan Police Service for inadequate handling of files related to organised crime groups
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a reprimand to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) following several issues identified around their uploading, amending and deleting of various criminal intelligence files…
Read More »Business fined £200,000 for making over 1.7million unlawful calls
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has today fined It’s OK Ltd £200,000 for what it called a “sustained and exploitative campaign” of nuisance calls.
Read More »New FOI resources to support public authorities
We’ve been working hard, following the commitments made in our ICO25 plan, to make improvements to our Freedom of Information (FOI) services. We want to enhance the experience and outcomes…
Read More »Update on the ICO’s change of approach to regulating communication service providers
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published a statement on 20 January 2023 about the obligations of public electronic communications service providers (CSPs) under Regulation 5A of the Privacy and Electronic Communications…
Read More »Five businesses fined a total of £435,000 for making nearly half a million unlawful marketing calls
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined five companies a total of £435,000 for making nearly half a million unlawful marketing calls to people registered with the Telephone Preference Service…
Read More »ICO and Ofcom strengthen partnership on online safety and data protection
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and Ofcom have today set out how we will work together to ensure coherence between the data protection and the new online safety regimes.
Read More »ICO launches consultation on how it prioritises FOI complaints
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has launched a consultation on how it prioritises the complaints it receives about public bodies’ handling of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests.
Read More »ICO and Cabinet Office reach agreement on New Year Honours data breach fine
The UK Information Commissioner has agreed to reduce the £500,000 Monetary Penalty Notice (MPN) imposed on the Cabinet Office in 2021 in relation to the New Year Honours data breach…
Read More »ICO fines four firms targeting people with home improvement predatory marketing calls
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined four companies a total of £370,000 for making over 820,000 home improvement predatory marketing calls to people registered with the Telephone Preference Service.
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