Talk Talk fined for breach of data protection principle
The ICO has fined TalkTalk £100,000 for a breach of principle 7 of the Data Protection Act – the “security” principle. It found that a third … Read more
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UK Government publishes its planned data protection reforms
It was in the Tory manifesto and the Queen’s Speech back in June, so it’s no surprise that we’re getting a Data Protection Bill. We … Read more
Money Supermarket fined £80k for email marketing breach
Price comparison website, Money Supermarket, has been fined £80,000 by the ICO for PECR breaches. They emailed millions of customers who had oped out of marketing … Read more
EU Home Affairs Sub-Committee reports on Data Protection & Brexit
The House of Lords EU Home Affairs Sub-Committee has published a report on data protection in the UK, post-Brexit. The report “Brexit: the EU Data Protection Package” came … Read more
ICO publishes international strategy
Last week the ICO published it’s international strategy for the next four years. The strategy sets out a number of global related data protection challenges: … Read more
ICO Subject Access Request guidance updated
The ICO has updated its subject access request code of practice not because the GDPR is coming, but because of the outcomes of a couple of … Read more
Royal Free & Google DeepMind trial failed to comply with data protection law
The ICO has published its ruling on the Royal Free NHS Trust sharing of patient data with Deep Mind (a Google owned AI company). The … Read more
Website vulnerability leads to £60k ICO fine
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) (the UK’s “data regulator”) has fined a small video game rental company £60,000 after failing to take basic action to … Read more
ICO issues fine for email marketing breach
The ICO has issued a fine to Morrison Supermarkets for sending marketing consent emails to over 130k email addresses where the subjects had previously opted-out … Read more
Updated SME toolkit and 12 Steps from ICO
On Thursday the ICO launched an updated data protection toolkit for SMEs and a relaunch to its “12 steps to take to prepare for GDPR” … Read more