£120k fine for TV company for data protection breaches at maternity clinic
The ICO has issued a fine of £120,000 to True Visions Productions for breaches of data protection legislation. The case involves the company recording patients at … Read more
Have you suffered as a result of a data breach? You may be due compensation
Slightly reminiscent of the “have you had an accident at work that wasn’t your fault” campaigns of injury lawyers, a law firm in Widnes has … Read more
£145k fine for data sharing process failings
In April 2019 the ICO issued a fine for £145,000 to the London Borough of Newham for unlawfully disclosing personal data of more than 200 … Read more
Data ethics – why data processing is about more than data protection
When we talk about the processing of data we usually think about data protection or the GDPR and how it applies to the lawful processing … Read more
Are you being asked to sign model clauses because of Brexit?
As the Brexit turmoil continues in the UK with the UK government still to agree on an appropriate way forward, EEA businesses are gearing up … Read more
First GDPR fine in Poland for breach of Article 14 of the GDPR
The Polish data protection authority (UODO) has fined a company PLN943k (about £188k) for failure to inform data subjects about how they came to have … Read more
Pension company fine highlights perils of bad advice and non-compliance
Grove Pension Solutions Ltd has been fined £40,000 for sending just over 2 million unsolicited emails. What’s interesting about this case is that a third-party … Read more
Small businesses at greater data and cyber-security risk
According to the Would you be ready for Cyber Attack? report from Business in the Community small businesses are not investing as much time or money … Read more
ICO fines Vote Leave for marketing consent failings
Vote Leave has been fined £40,000 by the ICO for sending over 196,000 unsolicited text messages in the run up to the 2016 Brexit referendum. … Read more
ICO building an AI auditing framework
The ICO have launched a new AI Auditing Framework blog which will provide updates and discussion around their work on developing a framework to give them … Read more