The number of UK websites complying with the newly enforced cookie law improved in the final month of the grace period, but 80% are still not compliant, a study shows. Since 26 May, UK website owners have been required by law to ensure ...
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office is to re-open its investigation into the collection of Wi-Fi data by Google's Street View vehicles as they collected images for Google Maps. The UK's Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)is ...
A data breach at Essex County Council, which has exposed up to 400 vulnerable people to identity theft, is to be investigated by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). The security lapse, by a council employee, involved the names, ...
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The government's controversial Draft Communications Data Bill, which aims to allow unparalleled interception of data about UK citizens' online communications and voice calls, needs to go back to the drawing board, according to Deputy Prime ...
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Most UK website users are choosing to allow the use of third-party advertising cookies, according to analysis of the impact of the so-called "cookie law". The UK regulation on the use of cookies, or small files containing browser ...
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Google has admitted to the Information Commisioner's Office that it failed to delete all the Wi-Fi data collected by its Street View vehicles. Last month, the ICO demanded proof that the Wi-Fi data collected by the Google Street View ...
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Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has selected security management firm Wave Systems' Safend Encryptor to encrypt sensitive data and manage and recover data securely. Further reading NHS Trust fined £175,000 for 'entirely avoidable' ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) says charities and third sector organisations stand to benefit most from a data protection check-up. The privacy watchdog offers free day-long advisory visits that give small and medium sized ...
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Data breaches in the UK across all sectors have increased an average of more than tenfold in the past five years, security firm Imation has uncovered. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) revealed the figures in response to a ...
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Stoke-on-Trent City Council has been fined 120,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for breaching the Data Protection Act. A solicitor that worked within the organisation was found to have sent 11 emails containing ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has slammed what it calls "an underlying problem with data protection in local government". It comes after four councils were fined a combined £300,000 for losing personal data. Leeds City ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) investigated the men following complaints from consumers, and has put an additional eight companies on notice that they face action, including fines if it is proved they are sending out unwanted ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has handed out fines totalling £300,000 to four different councils for a variety of data breaches. The ICO also criticised local government agencies for continued poor attitudes to data ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has imposed a monetary penalty of 175,000 on an NHS Trust in Torquay after the sensitive details of over 1,000 employees were published accidentally on the Trust’s website. Staff at ...
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The Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust has been hit with pound 325,000 monetary penalty for breaching the Data Protection Act. The penalty is the highest since the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) was granted the ...