Facebook to appeal against ICO fine – says it's a matter of principle not to pay 18 mins' profit Get Zucked, basically Legal21 Nov 2018 | 33
Merry Christmas, you filthy directors: ICO granted powers to fine bosses for spam calls Dodgy dialling dons' dosh due to diminish in December Legal21 Nov 2018 | 49
'Unjustifiably excessive': Not even London cops can follow law with their rubbish gang database Gangs Matrix led to 'multiple and serious' breaches of data protection rules, says watchdog Security16 Nov 2018 | 31
ICO poised to fine Leave campaign and Arron Banks’ insurance biz £135,000 Finds orgs sent marketing emails promoting each other without consent Security06 Nov 2018 | 50
£220k fines for dodgy dialling duo who didn't do due dil on data Cold-calling home security firms slammed in watchdog's cooler Security01 Nov 2018 | 31
UK data watchdog fines Facebook 17 minutes of net profit for Cambridge Analytica brouhaha Updated £500k legal max penalty under old Data Protection Act Legal25 Oct 2018 | 30
Remember that lost memory stick from Heathrow Airport? The terrorist's wet dream? So does the ICO Operator fined £120k by UK data watchdog Security08 Oct 2018 | 57
Manchester nuisance-call biz fined £150k after ignoring opt-out list Now fancies being struck off before data watchdog can collect Legal02 Oct 2018 | 67
UK ruling party's conference app editable by world+dog, blabs members' digits While Nadine Dorries' website extols 'block-chain spanning the 499km Irish border' Security01 Oct 2018 | 66
Health insurer Bupa fined £175k after staffer tried to sell customer data on dark web souk Firm failed to monitor CRM system thousands could access Security28 Sep 2018 | 34
Where's my money?! UK Info Commish squeezes data controllers while brandishing £4,350 fine Orgs failing to pay fee will get smacked with further penalty Legal26 Sep 2018 | 10
PPI pushers now need consent to cold-call you Regulations in Blighty tweaked to appease the masses Legal08 Sep 2018 | 104
People's confidence in orgs holding personal data is... on the rise? Data harvesting? Breaches? Whatevs – ICO survey Legal07 Sep 2018 | 13
Everything DM gets direct message slap: Marketing biz cops £60k ICO fine Sent 1.42 million mailers to unconsenting folk in a year Security05 Sep 2018 | 6
Cock-ups, rather than conspiracies, top self-reported data breaches Ah, the old bcc blunder, classic Security04 Sep 2018 | 14
None too chuffed with your A levels? Hey, why not bludgeon the exam boards with GDPR? UK data watchdog's teen tips on how to be more annoying Security28 Aug 2018 | 46
UK's info commish is having a howler: Site dies amid 'plagiarised' GDPR book scandal Elizabeth Denham's foreword to scrapped tome raises eyebrows Bootnotes23 Aug 2018 | 16
UK's data watchdog picks privacy man from IBM arm as new tech policy exec Simon McDougall bags top innovation role at Information Commish Legal13 Aug 2018 | 1
Emma's Diary fined £140k for flogging data on over a million new mums to Labour Party Updated Marketing biz sold info to political campaign via Experian Legal09 Aug 2018 | 51
Mind behind 16.7m nuisance call menace cops six-year boss ban Easyleads chief failed to pay fine – now he can't run a UK biz Legal09 Aug 2018 | 23
Brit watchdog fines child sex abuse inquiry £200k over mass email blunder Breach identified potential victims taking part in probe Security18 Jul 2018 | 32
Capita strikes again: Bug in UK-wide school info management system risks huge data breach Updated Techies told to patch: ICO probes error that let pupils link to the wrong parents Software17 Jul 2018 | 83
Brit privacy watchdog reports on political data harvests: We've read the lot so you don't have to Analysis 'Inaccessible' servers, crap transparency, Twitter caught doing decent thing and more Legal11 Jul 2018 | 16
UK privacy watchdog to fine Facebook 18 mins of profit (£500,000) for Cambridge Analytica Wow, Mark Zuckerberg must be really, really terrified Personal Tech11 Jul 2018 | 88
Welsh firm fined £60k for pummelling phones with 270k pay-day loan texts STS Commercial you're fined: Pay b4 August GET 20% off Security06 Jul 2018 | 26
British info watchdog slaps Midlands firm with £4,500 fine. Next time, register Data protection watchdog is always watching, CCTV firm told Legal03 Jul 2018 | 7
That'll learn ya! Data watchdog spanks two Brit phone botherers Our Vault Ltd fined £70k and Horizon Windows scolded over unsolicited marketing calls Security28 Jun 2018 | 30
ICO seeks views on how tween-friendly websites should be designed More Pewdiepie is definitely not an option Legal27 Jun 2018 | 4
Priceless: The cost to BT for bothering you with spam? 1.5 UK pence per email Incumbent telco fined £77k for sending 5 million of the things Networks20 Jun 2018 | 41
Cops fined £80,000 for revealing childhood abuse victims' names Bulk email error blabs 56 identities and email addresses Security14 Jun 2018 | 31
Audit of DeepMind deal with NHS trust: It checks out, nothing to see here Law firm's conclusions at odds with UK data watchdog, and critics don't feel any better AI + ML13 Jun 2018 | 26
UK! watchdog! slaps! Yahoo! with! £250k! fine! for! 2014! data! breach! 'Systemic failures' put Brit users' personal info at risk Security12 Jun 2018 | 20
ICO smites Bible Society, well fines it £100k... Vengeance for poor security sins in face of cyber attack Bootnotes08 Jun 2018 | 50
Cold call bosses could be forced to cough up under new rules UK.gov stiffens law after El Reg reveals low fine recovery rate Legal30 May 2018 | 68
Can't pay Information Commissioner's fine? No problem! Just liquidate your firm UK data protection watchdog has a 54% cash recovery rate Legal25 May 2018 | 37
Brit doctors surgery fined £35k over medical data fumble Left patient records, prescriptions in former surgery premises for 18 months Legal24 May 2018 | 14
You've got to be kitten: Vet recruiter told to pay £1k after pinching info from ex-employer Don't horse about with personal data, watchdog warns Security22 May 2018 | 35
Greenwich uni fined £120k: Hole in computing school site leaked 20k people's data Insecure 12-year old microsite handed attackers key Security21 May 2018 | 17
Brit prosecutors fined £325k after losing unencrypted vids of police interviews CPS failed to protect data of victims of serious sex offences Legal17 May 2018 | 34
Scrap London cops' 'racially biased' gang database – campaigners UK watchdog to assess whether it breaches data protection rules Databases09 May 2018 | 89
Zombie Cambridge Analytica told 'death' can't save it from the law UK Information Commissioner orders firm's founder to cough up professor's dossier Legal07 May 2018 | 75
Windrush immigration papers scandal: What it didn't teach UK.gov about data compliance Comment Bye Amber Rudd. And hey, maybe it's time to talk about consent Legal30 Apr 2018 | 54
Data watchdog fines Brit council £120k for identifying 943 owners of vacant property Accidentally pulled cloth off pivot table in Grenfell Tower FoI Legal16 Apr 2018 | 48
£12k fine slapped on Postman Pat and his 300,000 spam emails Royal Mail thought marketing was a service, ICO disagreed Legal06 Apr 2018 | 35
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a terrible leak of drone buyers' data Exclusive Tens of thousands of online shoppers' payment details left totally unencrypted Security06 Apr 2018 | 35
Politicos whining about folks' data rights ought to start closer to home Comment When it suits them, they don't give a rat's arse about your privacy Legal30 Mar 2018 | 36
What's an RDBMS? Don't ask the UK's data protection watchdog Cambridge Analytica Deep Throat says ICO needs to gen up on technical terminology Legal27 Mar 2018 | 23
UK watchdog finally gets search warrant for Cambridge Analytica's totally not empty offices After weeks of stalling and delays, ICO wastes no time kicking down the doors Personal Tech23 Mar 2018 | 101
UK's data watchdog seizes suspected Scottish nuisance caller's kit ICO gets search warrant... for firm accused of jamming up railway safety hotline Legal23 Mar 2018 | 57
Surprise UK raid of Cambridge Analytica delayed: Nobody expects the British information commissioner! Oh wait, yes they do Legal22 Mar 2018 | 95
WhatsApp agrees not to share user info with the Zuckerborg… for now ICO probe: No legal basis for Facebook slurps Security14 Mar 2018 | 22
UK data watchdog raids companies suspected of 11 million nuisance texts Computers and documents in the bag, please Security08 Mar 2018 | 23
Info Commissioner tears into Google's 'call us journalists' trial defence RTBF Trial No wriggling out of regulation, snarls ICO chief Legal08 Mar 2018 | 33
UK data watchdog's inaugural tech strategy was written with... *drumroll* Word 2010 So much for keeping up with the cutting edge, eh? Legal06 Mar 2018 | 49
UK regulator moots data protection sandbox for organisations to play in ICO strategy outlines plans to slurp up academic expertise Legal05 Mar 2018 | 4
UK data controllers to pay ICO up to £2.4k more a year when GDPR kicks in Gov’s bid to keep cash in data protection watchdog’s coffers Legal21 Feb 2018 | 8
Charity accused of leaving sensitive notes behind after office move Updated Yep, it's another case of the unchecked filing cabinet Legal15 Feb 2018 | 17
Stop calling, stop calling... ICO goes gaga after home improvement biz ignores warnings Swansea firm carries on direct marketing, lands extra fine Legal14 Feb 2018 | 50
Brit regulator pats self on back over nuisance call reduction: It's just 4 billion now! Problem? It's, er, only 60 calls per UK resident Legal09 Feb 2018 | 87
Info Commish offers privacy addicts a 12-step GDPR programme Get clean from your data sins Legal01 Feb 2018 | 8
UK data watchdog whacks £300k fine on biz that made 9 million nuisance calls Scouse firm bought data without checking permissions Legal01 Feb 2018 | 28
Cold calling director struck off for ‘flagrant’ breach of duties Halifax man didn’t pay HMRC but forked out on 2 houses and a wedding Legal24 Jan 2018 | 37