ICO fine pregnancy and parenting club £400k for unlawful sharing of member data
Bounty (UK) Limited have been fined £400,000 by the ICO for unlawfully sharing personal data with third-parties. Whilst the data subjects were asked to opt … Read more
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£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
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
Review of data protection compliance indicates room for improvement
The annual Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN) “sweep” is a joint study carried out across the world by data protection regulators (including the UK’s ICO). … Read more