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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined the Ministry of Defence (MoD) £350,000 for disclosing personal information of people seeking relocation to the UK shortly after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 2021. On 20 September 2021, the MoD sent an email to a distribu

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The UK Information Commissioner (ICO) is seeking permission to appeal the judgment of the First Tier Tribunal (Information Rights) (Tribunal) on Clearview AI Inc. In its judgment the tribunal supported the ICO's view that US-based Clearview was processing personal information, which related to the m

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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued an enforcement notice to the London Borough of Lewisham Council for failing to respond to hundreds of overdue requests made under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000. The council revealed the true extent of its poor performance on i

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Stephen Eckersley, ICO director of investigations, discusses the rationale behind the decision to begin publishing reprimands. John Edwards, UK Information Commissioner, recently set out our strategic approach to regulatory action when he said: “Members of the public, and those affected by a b

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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has launched a second consultation on a draft code of practice about using personal data for journalism. The code provides practical guidance on how to comply with data protection legal requirements and good practice when using personal data for jour

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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has today set out a revised approach to working more effectively with public authorities. This approach, which is outlined in an open letter from the UK Information Commissioner John Edwards to public authorities, will see use of the commissioner&rsq

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The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) relied on the wrong legal basis to disclose motorists' personal data to private car parking companies seeking to recover unpaid parking charges, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has ruled. In a six-page opinion published this month, the priva

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John Edwards has taken up the role of UK information commissioner. Mr Edwards, who joins on a five-year term, spent the past eight years as New Zealand privacy commissioner and before that worked as a barrister.

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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined the Cabinet Office £500,000 for disclosing postal addresses of the 2020 New Year Honours recipients online. The ICO found that the Cabinet Office failed to put appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to prevent the

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