The ICO has been working with the G7 and the Global Privacy Assembly towards an agreement on increasing mechanisms for ...

The public have been urged to make sure their home security systems are legally compliant this summer as an expert warned ...

An investigation, said the ICO, uncovered a 'vast, murky criminal network' where the details were 'traded to fuel distressing ...

The men from Cheshire and Greater Manchester unlawfully obtained data of a million people to generate leads for personal ...

The ICO said that its investigation found that 23andMe did not have additional verification steps for users to access and download their raw genetic data. John Edwards, UK Information Commissioner, ...

Summary of the contraventions According to the ICO: "The joint investigation into 23andMe revealed serious security failings at the time of the 2023 data breach. "The company breached UK data ...

DNA testing firm 23andMe fined £2.31m for ‘serious security failings’ - A cyber attack on the genetic testing firm saw personal information of 155,592 UK residents accessed in a major cyber attack in ...

The UK’s data protection regulator has said it is committed to getting back on track after complaint response times plummeted in the past quarter. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) admitted ...

On 11 October 2024, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued a GDPR reprimand to a Hampshire law firm following a data breach that affected over 8,000 individuals.

“Uncertainty doesn’t suit anybody.” Eventually, the CPCA plans to expand its standards into other jurisdictions beyond the UK, including the rest of the EU. Like the ICO in the UK, the European Data ...

The Information Commissioner’s Office has this week launched a new data protection audit framework, designed to help organisations assess their compliance with key legal requirements. The framework is ...