The ICO is committed to raising awareness of data protection and freedom of information rights, and to encouraging good practice. A full list of news releases from previous years can be accessed via our archive.
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3 February 2012 A financial services company with operations in the UK, USA and Middle East breached the Data Protection Act by losing over 600 customers’ personal details, the ICO said today. |
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30 January 2012 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. |
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30 January 2012 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. |
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27 January 2012 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. |
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25 January 2012 The ICO has issued a statement on the European Commission's proposal. |
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18 January 2012 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. |
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12 January 2012 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. |
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16 December 2011 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. |
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15 December 2011 The ICO has today published new guidance making it clear that information concerning official business held in private email accounts is subject to the Freedom of Information Act. |
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13 December 2011 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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8 December 2011 ‘Significant progress’ has been made in identifying those responsible for sending spam texts, the ICO said today. The update comes as figures from the ICO’s consumer survey show that 95% of people find spam texts either inconvenient, concerning or distressing. |
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6 December 2011 The ICO has today served a monetary penalty of £130,000 to Powys County Council for a serious breach of the Data Protection Act where the details of a child protection case were sent to the wrong recipient. |
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2 December 2011 An estate agent yesterday pleaded guilty to the offence of failing to notify the ICO that his business processes personal data. |
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