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EU proposes radical data protection refresh
The EC does as expected in proposing 24-hour breach disclosure rules and heightened powers for regulators like the ICO.
ICO: Private email is subject to FOI
Guidance suggests organisations should update communications policies.
ICO ticks websites off over cookie compliance
Website owners must do a better job of complying with the new cookie law, according to the ICO. <br> <br> <br>
Scottish council slapped with record ICO fine
Midlothian Council is told to pay £140,000 after sending sensitive data to the wrong recipients five times in the space of six months.
ICO hands its biggest ever fine to Welsh council
After two major mishaps, Powys County Council receives the biggest fine handed out by the ICO to date.
ICO issues more council fines
But some call into question severity of penalty for mistakenly emailed personal data.
Data transparency backfires as councils lose £7 million
The Government's drive for transparency has given fraudsters a helping hand in duping councils out of their money.
Councils slammed for placing child data in danger
The ICO has rapped three councils for failing to protect sensitive data on children.
MP Letwin agrees to stop dumping personal data in bins
Oliver Letwin agrees to better his data protection practices after dumping info on constituents in public bins.
Week in Review: Move over Vista, Windows 7 is in the works
Bill Gates may have gone, but Microsoft still has the ability to make the IT community sit up and take notice.
Five councils caught breaching data protection law
The ICO urges councils to do better after five local authorities make data protection snafus.
O2: Sorry for giving away your phone numbers
The operator says a technical error meant website owners were shown customers' mobile numbers.
Google urged to up privacy again after Street View 'debacle'
The ICO wants to see privacy implemented at the design stage of any Google project.
Cookie law will be ‘phased-in’ over 12 months
Despite becoming EU law at midnight, the UK Government has said the new directive for internet cookies will not come into force ‘overnight.’
Week in Review: All about the ICO, DEA lives on
This week, the ICO dominates security headlines, the judicial review of the Digital Economy Act is thrown out and research shows Apple could be...
Oldham school breaches Data Protection Act
A stolen unencrypted laptop containing 90 pupils’ details sets the ICO on the Freehold Community School.
London councils fined £150,000 for unencrypted laptop thefts
Lost laptops containing personal sensitive data results in hefty ICO fines for two London councils.
Week in Review: Tech City and Google guilt
This week, David Cameron announced plans to turn the East End of London into a Silicon Valley rival and Google was told off by the ICO.
Google data protection breach was ‘significant’
The ICO says Google committed a serious breach of UK Data Protection Act during its Street View operation, but no fine has been imposed.
NHS loses more sensitive data
A junior doctor working at East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust has lost a USB stick, containing sensitive data, on a train.
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