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 ...
Tags: ICO, penalty, Torbay Care Trust, website safety
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 ...
The Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)has fined a marketing firm GBP440,000 for spamming its customers with text messages. Tetrus Telecoms,owned by Christopher Niebel and Gary McNeish,has been under investigation for 18 months after ...
Tags: ICO, fines, Tetrus Telecoms, Christopher Niebel
As the government pushes private companies to release customer data under its Midata initiative,Computer Weekly looks at what this means for the digital economy and who stands to benefit most from this new form of"consumer empowerment". ...
Tags: Midata, customer data, consumer empowerment
An NHS trust is to challenge a monetary penalty notice issued by the Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)in a case that could set an important precedent. The NHS trust is to be the first public sector organisation to challenge the UK ...
Tags: NHS, ICO, fine, monetary penalty, Information Tribunal
The Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)must focus on encouraging organisations to raise employee awareness of the need for robust data security,and not just rely on the threat of fines to do this. So argues Phil Allen,director of ...
Tags: data loss, ICO, robust data security, Phil Allen
Endsleigh Insurance Services chose nearshore application development resources from a supplier when it was stretched during the busiest time of the year. The finance firm, which specialises on the student insurance market, outsourced ...
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Greater Manchester Police has been fined£120,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)for failing to take appropriate measures against the loss of personal data. An investigation into the force's data protection practices ...
Tags: ICO, Greater Manchester, Data breach
Public anxiety over data sharing is in danger of becoming of a major issue of the information age, and businesses and government need to act in order to reduce fears. That's according to The Data Dialogue, a newly launched report from ...
Tags: data sharing, major issue, Data Dialogue, think-tank
Sensitive personal information about more than 1,000 children has been published on the UK Independent Schools Guide website after an alleged cyber attack. The information was contained in a database of applications for top independent ...
Tags: Sensitive personal information, UK Independent Schools, cyber attack