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, ...

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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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...