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'Deeply concerned' UK privacy watchdog thrusts probe into King's Cross face-recognizing snoop cam brouhaha

ICO wants to know if AI surveillance systems in central London are legal

AI + ML16 Aug 2019 | 43

Estate agent dodges GDPR-sized bullet after exposing 18,610 folks' data for two years

Fined £80,000 under Data Protection Act – could have been a lot more under new EU rules

Legal19 Jul 2019 | 7

UK watchdog fined firms £3m for data breaches last year – before its GDPR balls dropped

They'll never be so low again. Ask Marriott and British Airways

Security10 Jul 2019 | 18

Marriott's got 99 million problems and the ICO's one: Starwood hack mega-fine looms over

Technically not yet A Thing but there's a war of words over it

Security09 Jul 2019 | 28

UK privacy watchdog threatens British Airways with 747-sized fine for massive personal data blurt

Half a million records lost? £183m GDPR fine lined up

Security08 Jul 2019 | 115

EE-k, a hundred grand! BT's mobile arm slapped for sending 2.5m+ unwanted texts

Pestered folk to 'download my EE app' and 'upgrade your phone'

Legal24 Jun 2019 | 16

Shut the barn door: UK data watchdog tells MPs mass slurping by firms is a huge risk to privacy

You need to rifle through my photos why, exactly?

Security20 Jun 2019 | 38

Double-sided printing data ballsup leaves insurance giant Chubb with egg on its face

Firm ever so sorry, takes security of info seriously, vows not to do it again etc

Security10 May 2019 | 69

Crypto-chaps on scam rap in a flap over Slack chat tap, want court case zapped: 'Attorney-client priv info' in messages

Duo also ask for two-year delay in celeb-studded ICO trial

Security01 May 2019 | 5

Six foot blunder: UK funeral firm fined for fallacious phone calls

Updated ICO slaps £80k penalty on biz that bothered opted-out peeps

Legal16 Apr 2019 | 29

Facebook is not going to Like this: Brit watchdog proposes crackdown on hoovering up kids' info

Analysis In the UK, it seems, someone is trying to think of the children

Personal Tech15 Apr 2019 | 44

Telly production biz films maternity clinic, doesn't tell patients, gets fined £120,000

Opt-out? We can just tie a carrier bag over the cam – it doesn't have a stop button

Legal10 Apr 2019 | 33

Turn me up some: Smart speaker outfit Sonos blasted in complaint to UK privacy watchdog

Tech lawyer argues that 'give us all your data or your kit gets it' doesn't count as valid consent

Legal10 Apr 2019 | 54

UK watchdog reveals naughty list of which companies haven't paid data protection fees

NetApp, Jive Software, Gigya and more in the doghouse

Legal09 Apr 2019 | 5

Oops! Almost a year in and ICO staff haven't been handed a GDPR privacy notice yet

Data watchdog: All our staffers are 'aware' of policies...

Legal08 Apr 2019 | 12

Blundering London council emails unredacted version of notorious Gangs Matrix to 44 people. Data ends up on Snapchat

Cops £145k fine for blabbing deets on 200 people

Security05 Apr 2019 | 88

UK's data protection watchdog preps to 'get its hands dirty' with beta of regulatory sandbox

Scheme to test compliance of innovative products accepting applications until 24 May

Legal29 Mar 2019 | 2

But we hired a consultant, cries UK pensions biz as it swallows £40k fine for 2 million spam emails

A legal boffin also gave us some useless advice, moans Grove Pensions

Legal26 Mar 2019 | 39

Tech sector risks GM-crops-like crackdown if it doesn't win back trust, warns privacy watchdog

'We’re living in an age of anger where people feel disempowered, unhappy...'

Legal13 Mar 2019 | 17

Raiding party! UK's ICO drops in unannounced on couple of dodgy-dialling dirtbag outfits

Data protection police come a-knocking. 'Put your computers and docs in the facking bag!'

Security12 Mar 2019 | 59

ICO, forgive me – it has been three weeks since I discovered my breach

Businesses slow to detect, report data leaks pre-GDPR

Legal11 Mar 2019 | 12

UK's ICO event on targeted ads opens floor to the adtech industry: Anybody? No? Speak for 10 minutes. Hello?

How to wind up your opponents 101: Refuse to engage

Security07 Mar 2019 | 14

Nuisance call boss gets 8-year ban after trying to dodge firms' £700k fines

Director applied to dissolve his companies to skip ICO penalty

Legal28 Feb 2019 | 55

Former senior UK council officer fined for doing dodgy data dealing to help his girlfriend

Kevin Bunsell passed info on rival candidates in job hunt

Legal27 Feb 2019 | 16

Watchdog asks UK.gov to reissue freedom of information guidance after councils are told to STFU about Brexit plans

Updated ICO slams 'neither confirm nor deny' tactics as unlawful

Legal25 Feb 2019 | 87

Data breach rumours abound as UK Labour Party locks down access to member databases

Breakaway MPs accused of making off with info

Security21 Feb 2019 | 63

Facebook political data probe: £2.5m. Powers for the ICO: Priceless

UK watchdog denies project distracted from day-to-day enforcement

Legal14 Feb 2019 | 6

Housing biz made to pay £1.5k for sticking fingers in its ears when served a subject access request

If someone asks for their data, you give it to them, scolds ICO

Security08 Feb 2019 | 32

UK's ICO slaps £120k fines on Arron Banks' insurance biz and Leave.EU campaign

Commish also promises audit for the firms' data protection practices

Legal01 Feb 2019 | 22

Got a fancy but slurpy new product? The ICO would like you to stuff it in its sandbox

UK data watchdog's plan to stay on top of Internet of S*'%t

Legal01 Feb 2019 | 2

Just keep slurping: HMRC adds two million taxpayers' voices to biometric database

But thousands opting out in 'backlash', says privacy group

Security25 Jan 2019 | 21

Cambridge Analytica sister firm pleads guilty, fined £21k for failing to obey UK information commish

Data regulator notches up another successful prosecution

Systems09 Jan 2019 | 18

ICO has pumped almost £2.5m and 36 staff into its political data probe – but only 2 are techies

Almost a third spent on outsourcing digital, legal skills

On-Prem20 Dec 2018 | 25

Former headteacher fined £700 after dumping old pupil data on server at new school

Why? Er, 'professional reasons'

Legal05 Dec 2018 | 50

Q: If Pesky Pepper had a peek at patient papers, at how many patient papers did Pesky Pepper peek? A: 231

Bored secretary at GP fined for sneaky look at medical records

Security30 Nov 2018 | 54

Er, we have 670 staff to feed now: UK's ICO fines 100 firms that failed to pay data protection fee

Enforcing GDPR is expensive work, says watchdog

Legal29 Nov 2018 | 33

Bedroom design outfit slapped with £160k fine for 1.6 million spam calls

Just five years after it paid a £90k penalty for dodgy dialling

Security26 Nov 2018 | 39

Facebook to appeal against ICO fine – says it's a matter of principle not to pay 18 mins' profit

Get Zucked, basically

Legal21 Nov 2018 | 33

Merry Christmas, you filthy directors: ICO granted powers to fine bosses for spam calls

Dodgy dialling dons' dosh due to diminish in December

Legal21 Nov 2018 | 49

'Unjustifiably excessive': Not even London cops can follow law with their rubbish gang database

Gangs Matrix led to 'multiple and serious' breaches of data protection rules, says watchdog

Security16 Nov 2018 | 31

ICO poised to fine Leave campaign and Arron Banks’ insurance biz £135,000

Finds orgs sent marketing emails promoting each other without consent

Security06 Nov 2018 | 50

£220k fines for dodgy dialling duo who didn't do due dil on data

Cold-calling home security firms slammed in watchdog's cooler

Security01 Nov 2018 | 31

UK data watchdog fines Facebook 17 minutes of net profit for Cambridge Analytica brouhaha

Updated £500k legal max penalty under old Data Protection Act

Legal25 Oct 2018 | 30

Remember that lost memory stick from Heathrow Airport? The terrorist's wet dream? So does the ICO

Operator fined £120k by UK data watchdog

Security08 Oct 2018 | 57

Manchester nuisance-call biz fined £150k after ignoring opt-out list

Now fancies being struck off before data watchdog can collect

Legal02 Oct 2018 | 67

UK ruling party's conference app editable by world+dog, blabs members' digits

While Nadine Dorries' website extols 'block-chain spanning the 499km Irish border'

Security01 Oct 2018 | 66

Health insurer Bupa fined £175k after staffer tried to sell customer data on dark web souk

Firm failed to monitor CRM system thousands could access

Security28 Sep 2018 | 34

Where's my money?! UK Info Commish squeezes data controllers while brandishing £4,350 fine

Orgs failing to pay fee will get smacked with further penalty

Legal26 Sep 2018 | 10

PPI pushers now need consent to cold-call you

Regulations in Blighty tweaked to appease the masses

Legal08 Sep 2018 | 104

People's confidence in orgs holding personal data is... on the rise?

Data harvesting? Breaches? Whatevs – ICO survey

Legal07 Sep 2018 | 13

Everything DM gets direct message slap: Marketing biz cops £60k ICO fine

Sent 1.42 million mailers to unconsenting folk in a year

Security05 Sep 2018 | 6

Cock-ups, rather than conspiracies, top self-reported data breaches

Ah, the old bcc blunder, classic

Security04 Sep 2018 | 14

None too chuffed with your A levels? Hey, why not bludgeon the exam boards with GDPR?

UK data watchdog's teen tips on how to be more annoying

Security28 Aug 2018 | 46

UK's info commish is having a howler: Site dies amid 'plagiarised' GDPR book scandal

Elizabeth Denham's foreword to scrapped tome raises eyebrows

Bootnotes23 Aug 2018 | 16

UK's data watchdog picks privacy man from IBM arm as new tech policy exec

Simon McDougall bags top innovation role at Information Commish

Legal13 Aug 2018 | 1

Emma's Diary fined £140k for flogging data on over a million new mums to Labour Party

Updated Marketing biz sold info to political campaign via Experian

Legal09 Aug 2018 | 51