Cathay Pacific Airways Limited has been fined £500,000 by The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for failing to protect the security of its customers’ personal data.
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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined CRDNN Limited with the maximum £500,000 fine for making more than 193 million automated nuisance calls.
Virgin Media has been fined £50,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after spamming more than 400,000 opted-out customers
The Information Commissioner is reminding organisations to be transparent with people’s personal information, after a survey revealed trust and confidence in how organisations handle personal data is still low, despite an improvement across sectors.
Credit rating company Equifax has revealed today that its databases had been hacked. In a statement, the company confessed that hackers managed to get access to some of its internal data in mid-May.
Investigations by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) into nuisance marketing have resulted in 16 company directors being banned from running a company for more than 100 years in total.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined the London Borough of Newham £145,000 for disclosing the personal information of more than 200 people who featured on a police intelligence database.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has signed a memorandum of understanding with the UK's Information Commissioner's Office to combat commercial electronic messages and unwanted telemarketing calls.
An ex headteacher has been fined in court for unlawfully obtaining school children’s personal data from previous schools where he worked.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined DSG Retail (DSG) £500,000 after a ‘point of sale’ computer system was compromised as a result of a cyber-attack, affecting at least 14 million people.
Organisations across the business services, construction and finance sectors are among the first to be fined by the ICO for not paying the data protection fee.
All organisations, companies and sole traders that process personal data must pay an annual fee to the ICO unless they are exempt. Fines for not paying can be up to a maximum of £4,350.
A former customer services officer at Stockport Homes Limited (SHL) has been found guilty of unlawfully accessing personal data without a legitimate reason to do so.
