The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a £66,000 fine and a reprimand to Police Scotland following a series of data protection failures that resulted in the excessive collection, ...

Blue-on-blue internal investigation lands force £66k fine The UK's data protection watchdog has fined Police Scotland £66,000 ...

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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued reprimands to seven public and private organisations over failures to respond to requests for personal information, but experts have questioned ...

Police Scotland has been fined £66,000 after extracting the entire contents of a person's mobile phone after they reported an alleged crime and then sharing it with a third party who should not have ...

ICO fines Police Scotland £66,000 after multiple mistakes handling data from a crime victim’s mobile phone. The UK's data protection regulator has fined Police Scotland £66,000 after an investigation ...

Pity the UK’s regulators. One moment they are minding the interests of citizens when a Prime Minister blunders into view, scraps the Industrial Strategy, and tells them they have a new purpose: ...

Lancashire Police Authority broke data protection laws by publishing a complainant's personal information on its website, the Information Commissioner's Office said on Tuesday. According to the ...

UK data protection regulator the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has welcomed a decision by LinkedIn to stop training its generative AI (GenAI) models on UK users’ information. Executive ...

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) launched a campaign called ‘Think. Check. Share’ (the Campaign) on 29 January 2024, to promote responsible data sharing to safeguard children. The Campaign ...

UK data protection law is set to introduce a new statutory right for individuals to complain directly to organisations about how their personal data is handled. This change, introduced under the Data ...