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ICO: Make 'reckless' data loss an offence

News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has called for amendments to UK data-protection laws, including making "reckless" data breaches an offence. The powers of the ICO are limited. For the most part, the ICO cannot impose a penalty for a...

Tags: data, dpa, ico, hmrc

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[31 Jan 2008]

Stolen M&S laptop contains 26,000 pension details

News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has threatened the retail giant with possible prosecution after the unencrypted data on a laptop was stolen from a contractor in April 2007. The ICO served the enforcement notice on 23 January after M&S...

Tags: ico, data loss, laptop theft, marks and spencer

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[25 Jan 2008]

Data breaches: No more than normal

News HM Revenue & Customs' loss of 25 million details of people claiming and receiving child benefit was the catalyst for a surge of data-loss reports, an ICO spokesperson told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk.

Tags: ico, whitehall, hmrc, security

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[18 Feb 2008]

Gov't fails to keep court data locked up

News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has said it will scrutinise the department's security procedures and has asked for a copy of Bloomfield's investigation before deciding what action to take.

Tags: loss, procedures, questions, details

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[23 Jan 2008]

Orange pulled up by privacy watchdog

News Orange and Littlewoods have been found to be in breach of the data protection act (DPA) by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). If the two companies continue to fail they could be subject to further ICO action which could lead to unlimited...

Tags: customer, breach, data protection act, ico

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[22 Jun 2007]

Carphone Warehouse in data protection breach

News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said the Carphone Warehouse, and its sister company TalkTalk, could face the possibility of an unlimited fine if their data protection and compliance systems are not brought up to scratch within 35 days...

Tags: carphone warehouse, privacy, data loss, ico

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[16 Jan 2008]

Downing St responds to silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign

News In November, Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave the ICO the power to conduct spot checks on government departments, in light of the HM Revenue & Customs breach which saw 25 million child benefit claimants' details 'lost in the post' - making it the...

Tags: full disclosure, government, data breach, data protection

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[10 Dec 2007]

Foreign Office admits data breach

News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) investigated the FCO after Channel 4 News alerted it to the fact personal details belonging to visa applicants were accessible by anyone visiting certain websites.

Tags: fco, data protection act, online, applications

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[14 Nov 2007]

ICO: HMRC breach - where were the tech safeguards?

News C is for CMA D is for DDoS Security from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more. A is for Antivirus B is for Botnets In the wake of the largest-ever data breach to hit the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office has criticised the...

Tags: hmrc, ico, privacy, questions

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[23 Nov 2007]