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Privacy watchdog cracks down on NHS breaches
News The Information Commissioner's Office is putting pressure on the NHS to improve data security at its facilities, following a string of breaches. The Department of Health confirmed on Tuesday that it had received a letter from information...
[May 26, 2009, 16:32]
New data protection code on employee records
News A new part of the Employment Practices Data Protection Code was published this week, the second in a series of four Codes of Practice from the Office of the Information Commissioner. The new Part 2 of the Code is available as a 101-page Rich Text...
[September 9, 2002, 15:21]
Foreign Office reports five data breaches since 2007
News The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has reported five significant data breaches to the Information Commissioner's Office in the last financial year. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) found that the FCO had breached the Data Protection Act...
[August 4, 2008, 8:59]
Information Commission lambasts anti-terror bill
News Sweeping measures to retain communications data for law enforcement purposes have been branded "unnecessary" by the Office of the Information Commissioner, along with the warning that such provisions are likely to infringe the Human Rights Act.
[November 14, 2001, 13:51]
Home Office admits loss of 3,000 workers' data
News The incident, which took place in March, was reported to the Information Commissioner's Office but has only now been publicly disclosed in the Home Office's 2007-08 resource accounts, published on 8 August, 2008.
[August 12, 2008, 8:04]
Number 10 will not investigate Phorm
News The Prime Minister's Office has rebuffed a public call for a government investigation into Phorm, saying that the independent Information Commissioner's Office is responsible for ensuring that the behavioural ad-serving technology does not...
[May 20, 2009, 16:25]
Home Office rapped over data-protection breach
News Privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office has found the Home Office to have breached data-protection law over the loss of 84,000 prisoners' data. Although the data was lost by contractor PA Consulting, as the relevant data controller...
[January 23, 2009, 12:25]
Data watchdog steps in over IT project reviews
News In a decision notice dated 10 June 2009, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said the OGC must comply with a 2006 request for the 'traffic light' status and recommendations of Gateway Reviews of "high-risk IT-related projects" at several...
[June 24, 2009, 10:27]
Privacy watchdog fears government super-database
News The Information Commissioner's Office, the UK's privacy guardian, has warned that the government's new data-sharing proposals could damage privacy. Responding to the policy review, the Information Commissioner's Office warned that relaxing these...
[January 15, 2007, 16:15]
Government 'too busy' to deal with spam
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said this week it lacks the power to fight spam because the government has not had time to discuss implementing effective powers. At present the powers of the ICO "are effectively nullified until [the...
[September 13, 2005, 18:20]
Opt-in cookie rule proposed for Britain
News The Office of the Information Commissioner has pledged its support for opt-in cookies, despite a recent u-turn on such standards by the European Union. The information commissioner is concerned that the unauthorised use of such intrusive technology...
[January 17, 2002, 16:34]
Information commissioner to quit
News It is the end of her term of office, and the post has to be advertised anyway," said Pat Mellor, personal assistant to the information commissioner. The information commissioner, Elizabeth France, is to quit her watchdog position later this year...
[January 3, 2002, 11:18]
Dot-coms come under data protection scrutiny
News The Office of the Information Commissioner has launched an investigation into the compliance of British Web sites with the Data Protection Act 1998. Once completed, if it shows a disregard for data protection issues by Internet companies, the...
[January 9, 2002, 13:13]
First identity commissioner appointed
News The identity commissioner will not be responsible for identity cards for foreign nationals, which are subject to oversight by the information commissioner and the chief inspector for UK Border Agency.
[September 16, 2009, 8:45]
NHS U-turn over deletion of patients' records
News Following discussions with the Information Commissioner's Office, the agency in charge of the NHS National Programme for IT has given patients the right to delete an SCR as long as it has not been used.
[May 27, 2009, 9:24]
UK failing to fight spam
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has admitted it fails to take legal steps against UK spammers while "successfully" enforcing regulations against 13 fax marketers. There have been some initiatives to encourage co-operation between the...
[August 12, 2005, 9:10]
Information Commissioner gets a new COO
News The Information Commissioner's Office has appointed a chief operating officer. He will report directly to the information commissioner, Richard Thomas, and sit on the ICO's management board. Entwisle has spent the past year as change and...
[October 29, 2004, 14:54]
ID cards: Do benefits outweigh risks?
News The Office of the Information Commissioner will only support the introduction of an entitlement card if it believes it will be beneficial enough to outweigh the risks to privacy, human rights and social values.
[January 23, 2003, 16:38]
Data watchdog probes government email bonfire
News The Office of the Information Commissioner is investigating the Cabinet Office for deleting millions of emails days before they would be made available to the public. If the emails have been deleted then this is something the Information...
[December 22, 2004, 11:30]
Watchdog highlights 'horrifying' security lapses
News The Information Commissioner's Office has criticised some of the UK's largest companies for a range of security breaches over the past year, calling the lapses in privacy "unacceptable". Orange, Barclays and NatWest were among those criticised for...
[July 11, 2007, 12:00]
