Former ACS Law man given slap on the wrist
It appears that the ACS Law saga may be drawing to a close, with the news that the former owner Andrew Crossley has escaped with just a £1,000 fine. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found...
View ArticleCritics chew on EU cookie ban
The UK government's approach to the refreshed EU cookie laws has been labelled a "mockery" and "useless" by one critic. Others have warned the laws could have a severe impact on consumers’ browsing...
View ArticleBanking fat cats must declare hack attacks
Banks are under pressure to fulfil legal obligations when it comes to the personal data of customers. The orders have been barked by David Smith, deputy commissioner at the Information Commissioner’s...
View ArticleUK cops abuse IT systems to spy
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) needs to wake up and take some proper action against police officers who abuse their position to access personal data. Instead of making "lily livered...
View ArticleGoogle dragged in front of ICO for privacy lecture
Google has been hauled in for a ticking off by the mostly gummy UK’s Information Commissioner Office over its famously poor attitude to privacy. The nosey-parker search giant has been handed a list of...
View ArticleFacebook prompts student job panic
Nearly half of the UK's students panic that information they themselves posted on Facebook will damage their prospects of getting a job, according to a recent poll. With so many young people...
View ArticleGovernment email strategy has to be open and transparent
The Information Commissioner’s Office has warned that private email accounts being used for departmental business could be accessed and open to the public under FOI rules. Following the leaking of...
View ArticleGove under pressure to publish private emails
Education Secretary Michael Gove is coming under increasing pressure to reveal the contents of private emails alleged to have been sent between himself and his advisers. Tom Watson MP tweeted today...
View ArticleICO shouts departments must answer FOI requests on time
The Information Commissioner and Big Brother Watch have said that more needs to be done to ensure response times for freedom of information (FOI) requests are decreased. In June 2011, the Ministry of...
View ArticleSecurity experts urge the world + dog to wise up about data
The Information Commissioner's Office, the watchdog which threatens to gnash its teeth at public and private sector organisations that are leakier than a sieve, has released a report claiming the...
View ArticleEU urged to 'set the rules' on health data security
The EU needs to bolster “inadequate” patient data security with eHealth legal frameworks, or risk playing catch up to the likes of Google and Facebook. The use of information and communication...
View Article"Inadequate" ICO hit by Anonymous
A group working under the banner of Anonymous has succeeded in bringing down the ICO's website with a suspected DDoS attack. The privacy watchdog's site was down for all of yesterday after a group...
View ArticleUK government watches cookie deadline whizz by
With a deadline for cookie laws set to take effect next week, many government websites will fail to comply, according to the Cabinet Office. Following a 2011 EU directive the Information Commissioner’s...
View ArticleNHS Trust faxed patient data to the wrong number for three months
A London Community Healthcare trust has been slapped with a fine of £90,000 after the Information Commissioner's Office found it in serious breach of the Data Protection Act. The watchdog, which had...
View ArticleUK brings in death penalty for Cookie Monster
The UK's new cookie law has confused a large number of people who believe that it only applies to muppets and has nothing to do with their web site. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said...
View ArticleHIV records from NHS trust accidentally sold on the web
The Information Commissioner's Office has come down hard on the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust. The watchdog has slapped the trust with a Civil Monetary Penalty (CMP) of £325,000...
View ArticleWatchdog slams police with £120,000 data breach fine
The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) has slapped a police force with a £120,000 penalty after it was found guilty of a serious data breach. Greater Manchester Police was taken to task following...
View ArticlePrudential vanishes retirement money
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined Prudential for bungling two customer accounts which put tens of thousands of pounds of retirement fund money into the wrong account. The company...
View ArticleSnooper's Charter blasted by MPs, Nick Clegg
Plans to introduce a "Snooper's Charter" have received a wave of criticism, with MPs, public bodies and even the deputy Prime Minister attacking the Draft Communications Data Bill. A Joint Select...
View ArticleGoogle escapes fine in Street View data theft
Google has been ordered to get rid of data the company "mistakenly collected" as its Street View cars mapped the United Kingdom - but the Information Commissioner's Office has let the company off...
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