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16 May - Council fined £70,000 for losing highly sensitive data
The London Borough of Barnet has been issued with a penalty of £70,000 for losing paper records containing ...
9 May - ICO statement on the Draft Communications Data Bill
The ICO has issued a statement in response to the Draft Communications Data Bill ...
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The Information Commissioner has delivered his report to Parliament following the Ministerial veto on disclosure of the Department of Health’s Transition Risk Register.
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Following an investigation by the ICO in 2005, Steve Whittamore pleaded guilty to breaching the Data Protection Act. During the investigation, the ICO recovered a number of notebooks in which Whittamore had recorded personal details relating to some 4,000 people.
Our fast-track service allows people to find out whether anything is recorded about them in these notebooks.
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