Queen’s Speech Announcement of Data Reform Bill
The Government wants to change the UK’s obligations under GDPR, the EU’s data protection law, which is also written into [...]
ICO fines law firm £98,000 following ransomware attack
The Information Commissioner (ICO) announced yesterday that it has fined Tuckers Solicitors £98,000 following a ransomware attack of the practices [...]
ICO fines pay day loans company £50,000 for unsolicted marketing
The ICO continues to issue fines for unsolicited marketing. The latest fine issued this week is as a result of [...]
ICO fines Insurance company £85,000 for unsolicited marketing text messages
Following 13 complaints about unsolicted marketing texts Tempcover, which operate within the financial sector as a provider of shortterm motor [...]
Home improvement company fined £200,000 for making nuisance marketing calls
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined a home improvement firm £200,000 for making more than half a million unsolicited marketing calls. [...]
ICO fines Energy Suite for making over 1,000 unsolicited direct marketing calls
Energy Suite, a small business, have been fined £2,000 for making over 1,000 unsolicited direct marketing calls to subscribers who [...]
High Court throws out claim over law firm’s “trivial” data breach
This High Court case law sets a new standard for all of those trivial claims being made by data subjects [...]
Ministry of Justice have 7,753 outstanding subject access requests, ICO take action
Today the ICO issued an enforcement notice to the Ministry of Justice, ordering them to reply to 7,753 outstanding subject [...]
ICO fines retailer £500K for failing to secure information of at least 14 million people
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined DSG Retail Limited (DSG) £500,000 after a ‘point of sale’ computer system was [...]
ICO publish draft marketing code and it makes very interesting reading
The ICO have just published the draft of their Direct Marketing Code of Practice. This is a statutory code which [...]