breach commissioner
Monitoring staff email and internet: The dos and don'ts
News Covert monitoring of staff communications is only allowed in exceptional circumstances - where, say, criminal activity is suspected, as the Information Commissioner's Office notes in its guidance to employers The... [22 Oct 2009]
Unencrypted details of 43,000 pupils on stolen laptop
News By allowing unencrypted data to be downloaded onto the laptop, the council breached data protection laws, according to the Information Commissioner's Office. Wigan Council has agreed to encrypt all data on portable... [07 Sep 2009]
When will organisations pay for data breaches?
Comment The role of the Information Commissioner's Office (or ICO) as the independent body charged with policing and enforcing data protection legislation is to promote good practice and ultimately, as the regulator, to take... [02 Jun 2009]
NHS warned: It's time to beat the breaches
News The Information Commissioner's Office is putting pressure on the NHS to improve data security at its facilities, following a string of breaches. The Department of Health confirmed on Tuesday that it had received a letter... [26 May 2009]
Calls for gov't Phorm investigation rejected
News The Prime Minister's Office has rebuffed a public call for a government investigation into Phorm, saying that the independent Information Commissioner's Office is responsible for ensuring that the behavioural ad-serving... [21 May 2009]
Europe votes for net-neutrality reforms
News I welcome the European Parliament's strong endorsement of the reform of the EU telecoms rules," Viviane Reding, Europe's commissioner for telecoms and IT, said in a European Commission statement. On the question of... [07 May 2009]
How to recover from a data breach
Comment The Privacy Commissioner has outlined the key steps, broken down into four key steps: breach containment and preliminary assessment; evaluation of the risks associated with the breach;... [09 Feb 2009]
Info watchdog: Home Office guilty of data protection breach
News Privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office has found the Home Office to have breached data-protection law over the loss of 84,000 prisoners' data. Although the data was lost by contractor PA Consulting, as... [23 Jan 2009]
Moon mobiles, Windows without Gates and DIY wi-fi signal boosting
News Apple's Steve Jobs and UK information commissioner Richard Thomas also made the list, coming in second and third respectively. Prisoner data breach firm paid £100m There are also predictions for... [15 Dec 2008]
Data leaks highlight need for content security
Comment It may sometimes appear that the regulators are adopting a knee-jerk response to high profile leaks; British data protection lawyers joke that the UK Data Commissioner has issued a directive that data stored on laptops... [11 Dec 2008]
Multimillion pound boost for privacy watchdog
News Information Commissioner Richard Thomas said the proposed £6m cash injection, which would give his office £18m per year, is expected to become law after the Queen's speech in December. The funding boost would come from... [29 Oct 2008]
CEOs told - take responsibility for 'toxic' data
News CEOs must take more responsibility to safeguard confidential information according to the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) also revealed it is... [29 Oct 2008]
EU privacy law shake-up to force data breach confessions
News Hustinx went on to say that the powers of the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) were lagging behind equivalents in the rest of Europe and welcomed consultations to give the ICO more powers. But [information... [28 Oct 2008]
Richard Thomas
AS Profile Information Commissioner since November 2002, he has been propelled into the public eye and the Agenda Setters top 10 by the spate of data breach revelations that followed HM Revenue and Customs losing... [07 Oct 2008]
Data breach at Virgin prompts encryption order
News According to the Information Commissioner's Office, the individuals' data went missing after an unencrypted CD was lost by Virgin Media. The loss, which occurred in May, constitutes a breach of the Data... [30 Sep 2008]
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