ICO 2024 – a year in review
As 2024 comes to a close, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is reflecting on a successful year of effecting change to protect people’s information rights and guide organisations to continually…
Read More »Manchester employee handed suspended prison sentence for illegally accessing personal information
A motor insurance worker who unlawfully accessed personal information has been handed a suspended prison sentence after an investigation by the Information Commissioner’s Office.
Read More »Using Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) to unlock value from data responsibly
On Thursday 7 November, DSIT’s Responsible Technology Adoption (RTA) Unit and the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published the Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) Cost-Benefit Awareness Tool.
Read More »Thinking of using AI to assist recruitment? Our key data protection considerations
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has shared key questions organisations should ask when procuring AI tools to help with their employee recruitment.
Read More »Ripple effect: the devastating impact of data breaches
A blog by John Edwards, Information Commissioner.
Read More »Two companies fined a total of £150k after bombarding people with spam texts offering financial, debt services
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined two Manchester based financial and debt management companies a total of £150,000 for sending in excess of 7.5million spam text messages to people.
Read More »DPPC 2024
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) will hold its annual Data Protection Practitioners’ Conference (DPPC) online on Tuesday 8 October.
Read More »Do I really need to read the privacy notice?
At the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), we are encouraging people to check how an app plans to use their personal information before they sign up.
Read More »ICO to investigate 23andMe data breach with Canadian counterpart
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) have launched a joint investigation into the data breach that happened in October 2023 at…
Read More »Registration opens for ICO annual conference
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) will hold its annual Data Protection Practitioners’ Conference (DPPC) online on Tuesday 8 October.
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