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UK health department reprimanded for use of private messaging services during pandemic

The Information Comissioners Office (ICO) found "extenstive use" of messaging apps like Whatsapp amongst government ministers and officials

The National (Scotland) · Jul 11, 2022

Liverpool Council refers itself to Information Commissioner after letter blunder

Some residents across the city have not received the financial support for their energy bills

Liverpool Echo · Jul 4, 2022

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GamesRadar · Jul 1, 2022

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UK data watchdog to scale back fines for public bodies

Information Commissioner’s Office says users of public services often bear brunt of financial punishments

The Guardian - UK · Jun 30, 2022

Parking fines: DVLA breached law over sharing drivers’ details

Agency could face compensation claims after data watchdog rules it applied wrong part of the law

The Guardian - UK · Jun 25, 2022

Facial recognition technology: how it's being used in Ukraine and why it's still so controversial

Facial recognition technology is being used in warfare for the first time. It could be a game changer in Ukraine, where it is being used to identify the dead and reunite families. But if we fail to grapple with the ethics of this technology now, we could find ourselves in…

The Conversation · Jun 14, 2022

Glasgow woman behind cold calling firm that made one million nuisance calls

Businesswoman Ashley Dodwell has been banned from running a company after her boiler replacement company Making It Easy when it bombarded people with unwanted calls.

Glasgow Live · Jun 8, 2022

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Police threatened with fines for unlawfully seizing rape victims’ personal information

Intrusive requests are ‘traumatising’ victims and causing them to drop out of prosecutions, watchdog says

The Independent UK · May 30, 2022

UK investigators told to stop mass collection of personal data in rape cases

Information commissioner says indiscriminate gathering of details is undermining trust in justice system

The Guardian - UK · May 30, 2022

Facial recognition firms should take a look in the mirror

Clearview AI was fined for using internet-sourced images of UK residents in its database – but not before police forces used its service

The Guardian - UK · May 28, 2022

TechScape: Clearview AI was fined £7.5m for brazenly harvesting your data – does it care?

The facial recognition firm earned a heavy fine for scraping millions of pictures of people’s faces from social media. But that doesn’t mean it will change its ways

The Guardian - UK · May 25, 2022

UK watchdog fines facial recognition firm £7.5m over image collection

Clearview AI hit with penalty for collecting images of people from social media and web to add to global database

The Guardian - UK · May 23, 2022

Facial recognition company used by British police fined £7.5m over unlawful image database

Service ‘effectively monitors the public’s behaviour and offers it as a commercial service’, watchdog finds

The Independent UK · May 23, 2022

Cabinet Office condemned by MPs for FoI ‘clearing house’ secrecy

The Independent UK · Apr 28, 2022

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The Guardian - UK · Apr 13, 2022

Home Office’s visa service apologises for email address data breach

Private contractor running service sent email to applicants containing more than 170 email addresses

Manchester Evening News · Apr 13, 2022

Two people suspected of leaking Matt Hancock affair clip won't face criminal action

The leaked images were most likely obtained by someone recording the CCTV footage screens with a mobile phone, the ICO said

The Guardian - UK · Apr 13, 2022

Inquiry into leak of Matt Hancock kiss images leads to no prosecutions

ICO finds insufficient evidence against those suspected of capturing footage of minister with colleague

Evening Standard · Apr 13, 2022

Probe into leak of CCTV images showing Matt Hancock kissing aide dropped due to ‘insufficient evidence’

An investigation into the publication of CCTV images showing former health secretary Matt Hancock kissing his aide has been dropped by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) due to “insufficient evidence”.

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The Independent UK · Apr 13, 2022

No prosecutions over leak of CCTV showing Matt Hancock kissing aide

The Information Commissioner’s Office said there was ‘insufficient evidence’.

Daily Mirror · Apr 13, 2022

Probe into leaked Matt Hancock kiss CCTV closed and no one will be prosecuted

The Information Commissioner issued search warrants for six phones but couldn't find the offending CCTV of Matt Hancock in a steamy clinch with his aide, Gina Coladangelo

The Independent UK · Apr 13, 2022

‘Insufficient evidence’ to prosecute two people suspected of leaking CCTV of Matt Hancock kiss

Matt Hancock was forced to resign after the kiss which breached Covid rules was leaked to the press

The Guardian - UK · Apr 6, 2022

UK’s freedom of information laws are being undermined, warn journalists

Letter signed by several MPs urges better enforcement of transparency law, as government accused of obstructing requests

Daily Record · Mar 17, 2022

Five firms fined £405k for bombarding elderly and vulnerable people with more than 750,000 marketing calls

The companies targeted people who had signed up with the Telephone Preference Service.

Manchester Evening News · Mar 16, 2022

'Predatory' cold call firms targeted elderly victims taking hundreds a month for unnecessary insurance

One elderly individual had their savings whittled down from £8,000 to £500 in just over a month

Daily Mirror · Mar 16, 2022

Cold callers fined £400,000 for selling insurance to vulnerable pensioners

Some of the people who were targeted by the five companies had dementia or were too elderly to manage their finances, according to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)

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