• ICO Elizabeth Denham and London chief digital officer Theo Blackwell gain New Year honours

  Information commissioner Elizabeth Denham and London’s chief digital officer Theo Blackwell take pride of place among public sector IT and…
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• ICO bares teeth and slaps maximum £500,000 fine on Facebook for failing to protect users’ personal information

  Just six days after it hired Nick Clegg as its head of global affairs, Facebook is facing a further risk…
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• ICO appoints new executive director for Technology Policy and Innovation

  The Information Commissioner’s Office has appointed Simon McDougall as executive director for Technology Policy and Innovation to lead new approaches…
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• Child sexual abuse inquiry fined £200K by ICO: for bulk email that identified possible victims of child sexual abuse

  They say sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined the Independent Inquiry into Child…
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• Facebook faces £500k fine for Data Protection Act breaches as ICO’s political campaigns data probe bites

  The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published a detailed update of its investigation into the use of data analytics in…
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• EU appears to rule out ICO from data protection decision-making table post-Brexit

  The European Union appears to have poured cold water on the UK’s government ambition to keep the Information Commissioner’s Office…
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• ICO marks GDPR debut with launch of ‘Your Data Matters’ awareness campaign

  Long term campaign is intended to help people understand why their data matters and how...
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• Greater Manchester, Wessex and One London named as health and care record exemplars

  Local partnerships will work as exemplars in giving health and care staff faster and better...
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• ICO: new laws, tools and rights allow people to take back control of their personal data

  Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham says our desire to book a flight, update our browser, or...
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• ICO lands University of Greenwich with £120K fine for “serious data breach”

  Fine followed what the ICO described as a “serious” security breach involving the personal data...
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