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Council fined for serious email disclosure
Cheshire East Council has been ordered to pay a monetary penalty of ?80,000 for failing to take appropriate measures to ensure the security and appropriateness of disclosure when emailing personal information, the Information Commissioner?s Office (ICO) said today. ...
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Councils fined for serious data breaches
The ICO has served monetary penalties totalling ?180,000 to two councils for failing to keep highly sensitive information about the welfare of children secure. These latest penalties bring the total amount served by the ICO to organisations found in serious breach of the Data Protection Act to over one million pounds....
Read MoreICO statement on Devolution minutes
The ICO has published a response to the government's decision to veto disclosure of minutes from the Cabinet Committee on Devolution....
Read MorePlain English Guide to FOI launched
The Information Commissioner has today published a new plain English Guide to Freedom of Information to help public authorities better understand what the Act says and how to apply it. The guide takes a straight-forward look at the law and explains in simple terms what organisations need to do to comply, including how to respond to requests and deciding what information they should routinely publish....
Read MoreMidlothian Council handed penalty for five serious data breaches
The ICO has imposed a monetary penalty of ?140,000 on Midlothian Council for disclosing sensitive personal data relating to children and their carers to the wrong recipients on five separate occasions. The penalty is the first that the ICO has served against an organisation in Scotland....
Read MoreToo many consumers being denied access to their information, says ICO
Too many consumers are being denied the right to access the information that companies or public bodies hold about them, Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, said today. ...
Read MoreAction taken after care provider lost unencrypted memory stick
A care provider with offices in Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man has taken action to improve its data protection practices following a joint ruling by the Information Commissioner?s Office and the Office of the Data Protection Supervisor....
Read MoreHealth worker convicted of obtaining patient details unlawfully
A former health worker has pleaded guilty to unlawfully obtaining patient information by accessing the medical records of five members of her ex-husband?s family in order to obtain their new telephone numbers....
Read MoreReceptionist unlawfully accessed sister-in-law?s medical details
A receptionist who unlawfully obtained her sister-in-law?s medical records in order to find out about the medication she was taking has been found guilty of an offence under section 55 of the Data Protection Act. ...
Read More?Must try harder? on cookies compliance, says ICO
Website owners ?must try harder? on complying with the new cookies law the ICO said today, as it published its half term report on enforcing the new rules....
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