data breach commissioner
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... [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... [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... [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... [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... [15 Dec 2008]
Multimillion pound boost for privacy watchdog
News The funding boost would come from increasing the fee paid to the Information Commissioner's Office by the largest companies among the UK's more than 300,000 data controllers. Information... [29 Oct 2008]
CEOs told - take responsibility for 'toxic' data
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) also revealed it is currently investigating 30 serious cases of data breaches and has received 277 reported breaches since the HMRC's loss of the personal... [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... [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... [30 Sep 2008]
Data breach victims get the mushroom treatment
News Tim Best, director enterprise security solutions at Logica, said in a statement: "It is time to take action - it should be mandatory for all organisations to report significant breaches of confidential personal information to the... [25 Sep 2008]
Data loss consultants sacked by Home Office
News Reporting the incident to the Information Commissioner the Home Office judged the risk from the data loss to be "low" but the government has commissioned a separate report into the incident and is... [10 Sep 2008]
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