Blue-on-blue internal investigation lands force £66k fine The UK's data protection watchdog has fined Police Scotland £66,000 ($88,000) for what it calls a "serious failure" in handling an alleged ...

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a £66,000 fine and a reprimand to Police Scotland following a series of data protection failures that resulted in the excessive collection, ...

The information watchdog said it was a 'stark example of the devastating consequences of poor data protection practices' ...

From years of denying it was part of its remit, to accepting that it is actually Quite Important for data protection, the UK’s data regulator ...

The ICO has fined Police Scotland after it shared the entire contents of a victim’s phone with her alleged attacker ...

ICO fines Police Scotland £66,000 after multiple mistakes handling data from a crime victim’s mobile phone. The UK's data protection regulator has fined Police Scotland £66,000 after an investigation ...

The ICO concluded that DSG Retail Limited had implemented poor security measures and failed to take adequate steps to protect personal data. This included vulnerabilities such as inadequate software ...

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) approach of only fining public sector organisations “in the most serious cases” is under fire from privacy campaigners at Open Rights Group (ORG), who say ...

Pity the UK’s regulators. One moment they are minding the interests of citizens when a Prime Minister blunders into view, scraps the Industrial Strategy, and tells them they have a new purpose: ...

UK data protection law is set to introduce a new statutory right for individuals to complain directly to organisations about how their personal data is handled. This change, introduced under the Data ...

On June 19 2025, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published guidance on the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (DUAA), which received Royal Assent on the same day. The DUAA introduces ...

The Court of Appeal (CoA) has ruled in favour of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in an appeal against a previous decision regarding the data protection responsibilities of businesses that ...