Tag: ICO

January 12, 2024

Food delivery company HelloFresh is nursing a £140,000 ($178k) fine by Britain’s data privacy watchdog after a probe found it had dispatched upwards of a staggering 79 million spam email and one million texts in just seven months. The meal-kit […]

December 20, 2023

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) must clear the backlog of hundreds of Freedom of Information (FOI) Act requests – some years old – or find itself in contempt of court. So says Britain’s data watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which […]

December 15, 2023

A data regulator has reminded companies they need to take care while writing emails to avoid unintentionally blurting out personal data. Unsurprisingly, much of the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) guidance comes down to the correct use of address fields […]

December 12, 2023

An official review of the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s (PSNI) August data breach has revealed the full extent of the impact on staff. The incident, which affected 9,483 officers, was branded “the most significant data breach that has ever […]

November 3, 2023

A “debt management company” is itself facing a bill from Britain’s data regulator for sending hundreds of thousands of text messages to households that opted not to receive marketing junk mail. Digivo Media Ltd, which traded as Rid My Debt, […]

July 8, 2022

Whether or not to pay a ransomware demand has long been an ongoing conundrum for organizations worldwide, and the UK government has decisively told solicitors to advise their clients not to pay up. A joint letter from the Information Commissioner […]

November 14, 2016

An Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) investigation into WhatsApp’s decision to share customer data with Facebook has confirmed initial concerns that personal information is not being properly handled. The UK’s information commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, said in an official company blog that […]

September 1, 2016

UK organisations are being overwhelmed by security breaches, with the number of incidents reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) nearly doubling in a year. The number of security breaches reported to the ICO rose from 1,089 in 2015 to […]

September 3, 2015

Earlier this year the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (#ico), along with 28 other data protection regulators from around the world, announced an #investigation into how #websites and #apps – squarely aimed at #children – were collecting and sharing personal information. […]