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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]
UK Nears 100 Data Breaches In Six Months
News Organisations are continuing to lose sensitive personal data — despite high-profile cases such as the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) data breach — and the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has warned chief executives to protect staff and...
[April 23, 2008, 8:54]
RIPA Surveillance May Break Human Rights Laws
News The information commissioner warned the Home Office of this conflict in a legal opinion issued this week. The information commissioner's legal opinion, from Ben Emmerson QC, advised that RIPA's data access provision could break the law because of...
[July 31, 2002, 16:43]
Peer Proposes Data Super-watchdog
News Merlin, Earl of Erroll on Thursday called for two governmental data watchdogs, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and the Office of Surveillance Commissioners (OSC), to be combined. This would solve a number of problems, said the peer...
[September 5, 2008, 14:15]
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]
MPs Demand Tougher Data-breach Sanctions
News A report published on 3 January, 2008 by the Commons Justice Committee also calls for new reporting requirements under the Data Protection Act (DPA), as well as greater enforcement powers and improved funding for the Information Commissioner's...
[January 3, 2008, 13:45]
Gov't Planning Centralised Communications Database
News The Information Commissioner's Office was quick to respond to the prospect of yet another large centralised database of citizens' personal data. If the intention is to bring all mobile and internet records together under one system, this would give...
[May 20, 2008, 13:33]
Worker Suspended Over Loss Of Prisoner Data
News The police and the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) have been informed of the breach. Deputy information commissioner David Smith said in a statement that it is "deeply worrying that, after a number of major data losses and the publication...
[August 22, 2008, 12:40]
Watchdog: HMRC Did Breach Data Laws
News The Information Commissioner's Office said on Tuesday that the government had failed to adequately safeguard the personal data. However, despite the concerns of the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the sanctions it can currently impose are...
[December 18, 2007, 13:54]
Browne: MoD Lost Three Unencrypted Laptops
News Steps had been taken to keep the intelligence services and the Information Commissioner's Office informed throughout the episode, said Browne, adding that the risk to service personnel would increase if the information "fell into the hands of...
[January 22, 2008, 10:37]
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]
Watchdog: Protecting Data Is Not 'rocket Science'
News In the wake of the largest-ever data breach to hit the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office has criticised the apparent lack of technological safeguards in government departments and called for "privacy-enhancing technologies" to be built...
[November 22, 2007, 13:43]
UK Web Shoppers' Details Exposed
News Following an investigation by silicon.com, the UK Information Commissioner's Office has agreed to act on behalf of the thousands of consumers who have had their details exposed. Faye Spencer, a compliance manager at the Information Commissioner's...
[August 13, 2002, 9:42]
ICO: Data-breach Spate 'no Worse' Than Normal
News The Information Commissioner's Office has said that the rash of data-breach reports in the past five months is due not to more data breaches, but to more people admitting to them. The ICO released its annual report in July 2007, which criticised...
[February 15, 2008, 16:01]
Privacy And Biometrics
White Papers Recognizing the potential of biometrics to enhance security and privacy prompted the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada, to work with public and private sector organizations to effectively identify and address...
[September 1, 2005, 3:00]
Whitehall Reports 30 Data Losses Since November
News Since HM Revenue & Customs reported in November that it had lost the details of 25 million child-benefits claimants, Whitehall has suffered a further 30 security breaches, the Information Commissioner's Office revealed on Monday.
[June 24, 2008, 13:20]
Companies Urged To Tell Customers Of Data Breaches
News ID cards, surveillance and data security seminar, Jonathan Bamford, assistant commissioner for the Information Commissioner's Office, said that such notifications need to be kept in perspective and decisions to inform individuals should be made on...
[July 17, 2007, 14:31]
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]
Lords: Government Doesn't Get Internet Threat
News The government did say that it would consider finding "more formal ways" of reporting security breaches to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), but only "when problems arise". Lord Erroll said this did not go far enough, as, by the time...
[October 31, 2007, 14:20]
Overhaul The Laws And Enforce Them!
Talkback As it is, the Information Commissioner's Office can only regulate, not enforce, the Data Protection Act. He is a senior partner in a three-office firm with over 1000 clients. The criteria: offsite and encrypted backup, no data leaving the office...
[November 27, 2007, 8:51]
