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4.05.23
The ICO needs to do more than pay lip service to data processing complaints against search engines and the press
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is the UK’s ‘supervisory authority’, as required by the Data Protection Directive (Directive 95/46/EC) (superseded by the EU General Data Protection Regulation and later the UK General Data Protection Regulation) on all matters concerning personal data. Amongst its roles, the ICO is obliged to consider complaints from members of the…
Read more12.10.17
Fines for data breaches and the General Data Protection Regulation
Much has been made of the imposition of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), to be integrated into UK law via the Data Protection Bill (“DPB”), in anticipation of its coming into force on 25 May 2018. The rationale behind the GDPR is to provide a legal framework that acknowledges the sensitivity of personal data…
Read more25.08.15
ICO serves first 'right to be forgotten' enforcement notice on Google
The Information Commissioner’s Office (the ICO) has served an enforcement notice on Google Inc requiring it to delist nine specific search engine results within 35 days. This is understood to be the first formal enforcement notice served by the UK regulator on the US online giant in relation to a ‘right to be forgotten’ request. The anonymous complainant originally requested that…
Read more16.02.15
'Government letting people down' on nuisance calls, says Information Commissioner
Information Commissioner Christopher Graham has urged the Government to change the law surrounding nuisance calls and text messages. Under the 2003 Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, companies must ensure that they do not conduct individuals who have ‘opted out’ using the Telephone Preference Service. Since 2011 the ICO has had the power to fine business in default up to…
Read more22.10.12
Information Commissioner investigates legality of police's retention of mobile phone data
Christopher Graham, the Information Commissioner, has told a parliamentary committee that his office is investigating whether police forces are breaching data protection laws by retaining data downloaded from suspects’ mobile telephones. It is understood that a number of police forces are routinely extracting mobile phone data in police stations from suspects. Data downloaded can include call history,…
Read more27.05.12
Thousands of websites unprepared for new EU cookie law
Privacy regulations that cover the use of cookies and similar technology for storing and accessing information on a users computer or mobile came into force on 26 May 2011. Cookies are small files placed on a user’s computer when he/she visits a particular website. Typically they record user choices which are then referenced when the user returns to the website. Cookies…
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