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News Barclays Bank faces an Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) investigation over allegations of customer privacy breaches. The ICO move follows a nine-month investigation by the BBC's Whistleblower... [26 Apr 2007]
UK companies 'flouting spam laws'
News However, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), which is the watchdog responsible for enforcing the PECR, has claimed the results of the survey do not match its own experience. While the ICO... [08 Jan 2007]
Bank data breaches probed by info commissioner
News RBS and subsidiary NatWest are being investigated by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after a member of scamsdirect.com - a group of freelance journalists who expose fraudsters - rummaged in... [21 Aug 2006]
Privacy fears spark UK website censure
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has ordered a website which provides personal information on UK citizens to stop using data from electoral registers published before 2002. Although such data on b4usearch.com... [04 Jul 2006]
Privacy breach companies 'must be named'
News A spokesman for the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said there is nothing in the Data Protection Act to require a company to inform either its customers or the ICO if a data breach has occurred... [02 May 2006]
UK consumers left in the dark on data breaches
News A spokeswoman from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) told silicon.com: "There is nothing in the Data Protection Act that legally obliges companies to inform customers when these things occur. [02 May 2006]
Leader: Data protection watchdog needs more bite
Leader Several cases this week have once again put the role of the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) into the spotlight, and raised the question of whether the UK's data protection watchdog is more toothless pussycat than... [13 Jan 2006]
Half of FoI complaints unresolved
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has resolved less than half of the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act complaints it received last year. Since the FoI Act came into effect last January, the ICO... [13 Jan 2006]
'Technology our only hope of cutting spam'
News A spokeswoman for the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) told silicon.com: "Richard Thomas [the Information Commissioner] has made it clear that it is very difficult to stop spam. However, contrary to other media... [12 Dec 2005]
Spam: Government 'too busy' to deal with it, says ICO
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said this week it lacks the power to fight spam because the government has not had time to discuss implementing effective powers. According to a senior member of the... [14 Sep 2005]
UK stops 13 fax marketers - but no spammers
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has admitted it fails to take legal steps against UK spammers while "successfully" enforcing regulations against 13 fax marketers. The ICO, the UK's last... [11 Aug 2005]
Spam and data protection: know the law and take precautions
Comment Despite the ICO's keenness to see spammers brought to justice, in practice, only the very serious cases will come under the legal microscope. And while the directive is putting the onus on businesses and their marketers... [10 Dec 2003]
Pie in the sky?
Comment However, voice-oriented services such as Globalstar, ICO Global Communications and Iridium have had their well-documented troubles, suffering as cellular networks grew quickly during the 1990s. Today's deal between... [05 Jul 2001]
McCaw set to save Iridium from Chapter 11
News McCaw, whose McCaw Cellular business was bought by AT&T in 1994 for $11.5bn, is already an investor in US mobile operator, Nextel Communications; Iridium rival, ICO Global Communications; and 'Internet-in-the-sky'... [07 Feb 2000]
Iridium files for Chapter 11
News The satellite telephony and paging company last week defaulted on more than $1.5bn worth of loans, and with rival ICO Global Communications also struggling to secure financing, the future of mobile satellite service... [17 Aug 1999]
