High-ranking crime fighter to join UK’s FCA as payments and digital assets director
The Financial Conduct Authority is introducing the post of digital assets director as part of a hiring spree that goes along with its new, more assertive strategy.
Read More »Open letter from UK Information Commissioner John Edwards to public authorities
The role of UK Information Commissioner comes with responsibilities, powers, and discretions. Since starting my role in January, I have been touring the UK listening to businesses, organisations and the…
Read More »Why protecting children online in UK living rooms starts 5,000 miles away
“Share your data if you’re looking for a wee stalker”. That was the response by a child from Edinburgh when asked about sharing too much personal information online.
Read More »UK Refutes EU Regulation to Monitor Unhosted Digital Wallets
The United Kingdom has declined to implement a European Union rule requiring EU governments to monitor transactions on non-hosted digital wallets. The UK preferred to monitor transactions above a certain…
Read More »ICO fines facial recognition database company Clearview AI Inc more than £7.5m and orders UK data to be deleted
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Clearview AI Inc £7,552,800 for using images of people in the UK, and elsewhere, that were collected from the web and social media…
Read More »ICO funding update: Fine income retention agreement
The ICO is an independent regulator and our focus is on supporting organisations to meet their legal requirements. However, in order to uphold information rights for the UK public, it…
Read More »The ICO’s work in the media – our work to recover fines
The New Statesman published a story about our fines issued since 2017. We can issue fines under the Data Protection Act 2018, which sets out the obligations for organisations using…
Read More »ICO fines facial recognition database company Clearview AI Inc more than £7.5m and orders UK data to be deleted
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Clearview AI Inc £7,552,800 for using images of people in the UK, and elsewhere, that were collected from the web and social media…
Read More »Director’s Update – Why Covid-19 has shown the FOI Act has never been more important to UK society
The past two years have highlighted how transparency and accountability are fundamental to our democracy – the impact of decisions made by public bodies throughout the pandemic have affected us…
Read More »Joint statement on global privacy expectations of Video Teleconferencing companies
In July 2020, six data protection and privacy authorities from Australia, Canada, Gibraltar, Hong Kong SAR, China, Switzerland and the United Kingdom jointly signed an open letter to video teleconferencing…
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