Data protection scofflaws failed to pay £2m in fines from UK watchdog – and 68% of penalties are still outstanding We're trying, insists beleaguered Information Commissioner's Office Security05 Nov 2020 | 17
Marriott fined £0.05 for each of the 339 million hotel guests whose data crooks were stealing for four years UK watchdog's mooted £99m penalty comes in at just £18.4m Security30 Oct 2020 | 32
Experian vows to drag UK's Information Commissioner's Office to court after being told off for data-slurping practices Credit reference agency recycled personal details for marketing purposes, says regulator Security28 Oct 2020 | 43
British Airways fined £20m for Magecart hack that exposed 400k folks' credit card details to crooks Airline was saving domain admin creds and card details alike in plaintext Security16 Oct 2020 | 39
Email-spamming COVID profiteers deleted database with 'key evidence' when UK watchdog came knocking Fined £40k after probe. Plus: ICO wants your views on its future powers Security09 Oct 2020 | 15
UK privacy watchdog wraps up probe into Cambridge Analytica and... it was all a little bit overblown, no? Sure, millions of profile pages slurped via dodgy Facebook API though it didn't actually affect anything, it seems Personal Tech08 Oct 2020 | 24
Director of nuisance-calls company ordered to cough up £114k after ignoring £40k fine from UK data watchdog Cost of enforcing IT Protect Ltd's initial penalty more than treble its value... no money yet collected Security29 Sep 2020 | 32
UK ICO fines biz profiteering from COVID-19 crisis by sending unsolicited marketing texts to Joe Public Digital Growth Experts Ltd hit send on 16k+ messages. The fine? £3.70 per text Security24 Sep 2020 | 14
Pension scheme cold caller fined £130,000 by UK data watchdog Swansea-based CPS Advisory hit dial 106,987 times in 80 days, says ICO Security10 Sep 2020 | 15
UK data watchdog having a hard time making GDPR fines stick: Marriott scores another extension, BA prepares to pay 11% of £183m penalty threat Updated COVID-battered businesses win reprieve from Information Commissioner's Office Security05 Aug 2020 | 41
Lock down your data – or get the cheque book out: ICO privacy violation fines are rising, say lawyers You can thank GDPR for that Legal20 Jul 2020 | 7
Legal complaint lodged with UK data watchdog over claims coronavirus Test and Trace programme flouts GDPR 'Government is moving too fast, and breaking things as a result' Security04 Jun 2020 | 121
Frippin' heck: Watch out, chin-stroking prog rock fans. King Crimson distributor Burning Shed says it's been hacked Crims slope off with a slice of dabatase including emails and encrypted passwords but no credit card deets Security21 Apr 2020 | 10
Tribunal halts all Information Commissioner's Office cases because UK data watchdog can't print or organise PDFs Exclusive Legal request leads to blanket month-long delay Legal08 Apr 2020 | 32
British Airways and Marriott UK data protection fines deferred again as coronavirus shutdown hits business May and June are new due dates and neither firm is going down quietly Security06 Apr 2020 | 5
UK Information Commissioner OKs use of phone data to track coronavirus spread But Australia's PM declares it doesn't align with national values Legal29 Mar 2020 | 104
Freedom of Information coverup clerk stung for £2k after deleting council audio recording ICO notches up first successful FoI prosecution Security18 Mar 2020 | 28
UK data watchdog slaps a £500,000 fine on Cathay Pacific for 2018 9.4m customer data leak ICO probe found backup files not password-protected, unpatched web-facing servers, out-of-date OS and more Security04 Mar 2020 | 14
Scottish biz raided, fined £500k for making 193 million automated calls 'Company affected lives of millions of people, causing disruption, annoyance and distress,' thunders ICO Legal02 Mar 2020 | 62
UK data watchdog kicks £280m British Airways and Marriott GDPR fines into legal long grass Info Commish has £2m annual legal budget to face off with multinationals Security13 Jan 2020 | 37
Say GDP-aaaR: UK's Information Commissioner pours £275k fine into London pharmacy's teaspoon Half a million docs, including patient names and medical records left at back of premises Security23 Dec 2019 | 45
Where's the money, Lebowski?! UK data watchdog says £7m in fines unpaid since 2015 It's down there somewhere, let me take another look Legal25 Nov 2019 | 12
UK Info Commish quietly urged court to swat away 100k Morrisons data breach sueball Supermarket says it's innocent and we don't need more than that, ICO told judges Security13 Nov 2019 | 83
Dough! Jobs microsite for UK's data watchdog set hundreds of cookies without visitors' consent Information Commissioner's Office is very knowledgeable about why that's bad Legal07 Nov 2019 | 27
Who's the leakiest of them all? It's the UK's public sector, breach fine analysis reveals Ah, the old lost disk scenario... On-Prem28 Oct 2019 | 16
'Deeply concerned' UK privacy watchdog thrusts probe into King's Cross face-recognizing snoop cam brouhaha ICO wants to know if AI surveillance systems in central London are legal AI + ML16 Aug 2019 | 43
Estate agent dodges GDPR-sized bullet after exposing 18,610 folks' data for two years Fined £80,000 under Data Protection Act – could have been a lot more under new EU rules Legal19 Jul 2019 | 7
UK watchdog fined firms £3m for data breaches last year – before its GDPR balls dropped They'll never be so low again. Ask Marriott and British Airways Security10 Jul 2019 | 18
Marriott's got 99 million problems and the ICO's one: Starwood hack mega-fine looms over Technically not yet A Thing but there's a war of words over it Security09 Jul 2019 | 28
UK privacy watchdog threatens British Airways with 747-sized fine for massive personal data blurt Half a million records lost? £183m GDPR fine lined up Security08 Jul 2019 | 115
EE-k, a hundred grand! BT's mobile arm slapped for sending 2.5m+ unwanted texts Pestered folk to 'download my EE app' and 'upgrade your phone' Legal24 Jun 2019 | 16
Shut the barn door: UK data watchdog tells MPs mass slurping by firms is a huge risk to privacy You need to rifle through my photos why, exactly? Security20 Jun 2019 | 38
Double-sided printing data ballsup leaves insurance giant Chubb with egg on its face Firm ever so sorry, takes security of info seriously, vows not to do it again etc Security10 May 2019 | 69
Crypto-chaps on scam rap in a flap over Slack chat tap, want court case zapped: 'Attorney-client priv info' in messages Duo also ask for two-year delay in celeb-studded ICO trial Security01 May 2019 | 5
Six foot blunder: UK funeral firm fined for fallacious phone calls Updated ICO slaps £80k penalty on biz that bothered opted-out peeps Legal16 Apr 2019 | 29
Facebook is not going to Like this: Brit watchdog proposes crackdown on hoovering up kids' info Analysis In the UK, it seems, someone is trying to think of the children Personal Tech15 Apr 2019 | 44
Telly production biz films maternity clinic, doesn't tell patients, gets fined £120,000 Opt-out? We can just tie a carrier bag over the cam – it doesn't have a stop button Legal10 Apr 2019 | 33
Turn me up some: Smart speaker outfit Sonos blasted in complaint to UK privacy watchdog Tech lawyer argues that 'give us all your data or your kit gets it' doesn't count as valid consent Legal10 Apr 2019 | 54
UK watchdog reveals naughty list of which companies haven't paid data protection fees NetApp, Jive Software, Gigya and more in the doghouse Legal09 Apr 2019 | 5
Oops! Almost a year in and ICO staff haven't been handed a GDPR privacy notice yet Data watchdog: All our staffers are 'aware' of policies... Legal08 Apr 2019 | 12
Blundering London council emails unredacted version of notorious Gangs Matrix to 44 people. Data ends up on Snapchat Cops £145k fine for blabbing deets on 200 people Security05 Apr 2019 | 88
UK's data protection watchdog preps to 'get its hands dirty' with beta of regulatory sandbox Scheme to test compliance of innovative products accepting applications until 24 May Legal29 Mar 2019 | 2
But we hired a consultant, cries UK pensions biz as it swallows £40k fine for 2 million spam emails A legal boffin also gave us some useless advice, moans Grove Pensions Legal26 Mar 2019 | 39
Tech sector risks GM-crops-like crackdown if it doesn't win back trust, warns privacy watchdog 'We’re living in an age of anger where people feel disempowered, unhappy...' Legal13 Mar 2019 | 17
Raiding party! UK's ICO drops in unannounced on couple of dodgy-dialling dirtbag outfits Data protection police come a-knocking. 'Put your computers and docs in the facking bag!' Security12 Mar 2019 | 59
ICO, forgive me – it has been three weeks since I discovered my breach Businesses slow to detect, report data leaks pre-GDPR Legal11 Mar 2019 | 12
UK's ICO event on targeted ads opens floor to the adtech industry: Anybody? No? Speak for 10 minutes. Hello? How to wind up your opponents 101: Refuse to engage Security07 Mar 2019 | 14
Nuisance call boss gets 8-year ban after trying to dodge firms' £700k fines Director applied to dissolve his companies to skip ICO penalty Legal28 Feb 2019 | 55
Former senior UK council officer fined for doing dodgy data dealing to help his girlfriend Kevin Bunsell passed info on rival candidates in job hunt Legal27 Feb 2019 | 16
Watchdog asks UK.gov to reissue freedom of information guidance after councils are told to STFU about Brexit plans Updated ICO slams 'neither confirm nor deny' tactics as unlawful Legal25 Feb 2019 | 87
Data breach rumours abound as UK Labour Party locks down access to member databases Breakaway MPs accused of making off with info Security21 Feb 2019 | 63
Facebook political data probe: £2.5m. Powers for the ICO: Priceless UK watchdog denies project distracted from day-to-day enforcement Legal14 Feb 2019 | 6
Housing biz made to pay £1.5k for sticking fingers in its ears when served a subject access request If someone asks for their data, you give it to them, scolds ICO Security08 Feb 2019 | 32
UK's ICO slaps £120k fines on Arron Banks' insurance biz and Leave.EU campaign Commish also promises audit for the firms' data protection practices Legal01 Feb 2019 | 22
Got a fancy but slurpy new product? The ICO would like you to stuff it in its sandbox UK data watchdog's plan to stay on top of Internet of S*'%t Legal01 Feb 2019 | 2
Just keep slurping: HMRC adds two million taxpayers' voices to biometric database But thousands opting out in 'backlash', says privacy group Security25 Jan 2019 | 21
Cambridge Analytica sister firm pleads guilty, fined £21k for failing to obey UK information commish Data regulator notches up another successful prosecution Systems09 Jan 2019 | 18
ICO has pumped almost £2.5m and 36 staff into its political data probe – but only 2 are techies Almost a third spent on outsourcing digital, legal skills On-Prem20 Dec 2018 | 25
Former headteacher fined £700 after dumping old pupil data on server at new school Why? Er, 'professional reasons' Legal05 Dec 2018 | 50
Q: If Pesky Pepper had a peek at patient papers, at how many patient papers did Pesky Pepper peek? A: 231 Bored secretary at GP fined for sneaky look at medical records Security30 Nov 2018 | 54
Er, we have 670 staff to feed now: UK's ICO fines 100 firms that failed to pay data protection fee Enforcing GDPR is expensive work, says watchdog Legal29 Nov 2018 | 33
Bedroom design outfit slapped with £160k fine for 1.6 million spam calls Just five years after it paid a £90k penalty for dodgy dialling Security26 Nov 2018 | 39