Some enforcement action news from the ICO; The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined two Greater Manchester companies a total of £290k after finding they made numerous nuisance phone calls to people – who’d opted […]
The ICO wants to see more shared information between companies when it comes to scams and fraud. But then the UK signed up to GDPR years ago, so there’s that. You can’t have it both […]
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a number of final civil monetary penalties in 2020, totalling £42,416,000. The reasons for the fines included breaches of Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) and the Data Protection Act (DPA). […]
A new study reveals how many businesses in the UK have been caught breaching GDPR regulations whilst working from home. Data obtained through a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by confidential shredding and records management […]
The ICO has fined Marriott International Inc £18.4million for failing to keep millions of customers’ personal data secure. Marriott estimates that 339 million guest records worldwide were affected following a cyber-attack in 2014 on Starwood Hotels […]
Which? is calling for enforcement of tough penalties for firms that fail to prevent data breaches, as new research from the consumer champion reveals the shocking scale of data theft following cyber attacks. When data […]
With the introduction in May 2018 of the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), 2019 was expected to be the year of enforcement, with regulators using extended powers to set a higher bar […]
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