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ICO fails to achieve $600m funding target

News ICO Global Communications last week said it has failed to raise $600m in financing from strategic investors only two weeks after being rebuffed by the wider investment community. Analysts are now saying that Iridium's well-documented problems are...

[16 Aug 1999]

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

[31 Jan 2008]

ICO seeks strategic investors

News ICO Global Communications, the third largest mobile satellite services (MSS) provider, has said its rights offering to raise at least $500m by a 27 July deadline has failed. Setbacks affecting fellow MSS players Iridium and Globalstar have made...

[02 Aug 1999]

ICO: Data theft laws must not be axed

News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has said it is vital the government resists pressure to withdraw clause 76 as the bill passes through parliament. An ICO spokesman said: "We want to deter people from the illegal buying and selling of data.

Tags: data theft, data loss, ico

[01 Apr 2008]

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 ICO, the regulator lacks the necessary...

Tags: ico, spam

[14 Sep 2005]

McCaw bails out ICO

News Cellular phone pioneer Craig McCaw has come to the rescue of troubled satellite telephony firm, ICO Global Communications. In August, ICO filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US. Richard Greco, CEO of ICO, said the financing should...

[02 Nov 1999]

CSC nets $130m ICO contract

News Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has won a $130m (£78m) contract to supply and run its Business Operations Support System (Boss) for ICO Global Communications. ICO also announced today that NEC and Mitsubishi will provide the handsets and...

[30 Jun 1998]

Give us the power to can spam, says ICO

News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has said it needs more power and resources to deal with spammers. Speaking at today's Westminster eForum on spams and scams in London, David Evans, senior guidance and promotion manager for the ICO...

Tags: ico, spam

[06 Sep 2005]

ICO: HMRC breach - where were the tech safeguards?

News In the wake of the largest-ever data breach to hit the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office has criticised the apparent lack of technological safeguards in government departments and called for "privacy-enhancing technologies" to be built...

Tags: hmrc, ico, privacy, questions

[23 Nov 2007]

Privacy watchdog clamps down on DVLA data sharing

Privacy watchdog clamps down on DVLA data sharing

News Data protection watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has published guidelines outlining how motorists' personal data can be used by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA). The ICO guide attempts to explain the circumstances...

Tags: ico, disclosure, dvla

[04 Sep 2007]

SMEs: Deal with data requests this way...

News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has published advice on data protection for small and medium-sized enterprises. The ICO explains how to handle requests from individuals whose data the SME holds.

Tags: data protection, data protection act, information commissioner, sme

[13 Feb 2007]

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 dangerous Dobermann.

Tags: ico, data protection act, information commissioner

[13 Jan 2006]

Leader: UK soft on spam

Leader By its own admission, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is requesting stronger powers to tackle spammers and stop them sending unsolicited email. Some reports say the ICO has received 600 complaints of spam over the last year but others...

Tags: spamhaus, spam

[11 Aug 2005]

Satellite communications firm makes lacklustre debut on Nasdaq

News Shares of satellite mobile phone company, ICO Global Communications, failed to perform as expected on their first day of trading on Nasdaq. However, Olof Lundberg, chief executive at ICO, took a more optimistic view, saying its first day of trading...

[04 Aug 1998]

Satellite telephony fails to take off

Comment Mobile satellite services such as Iridium, Globalstar and ICO Global Communications haven't had too much to shout about in recent months, even though they've successfully been carrying out some of the most ambitious commercial infrastructure...

[23 Jul 1999]

silicon.com victory in Full Disclosure data campaign

News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is asking that "knowingly or recklessly" breaching the Data Protection Act (DPA) could be made a criminal offence, as part of a series of amendments to the act.

Tags: data loss, richard thomas, ico, campaign

[31 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

[18 Feb 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

[25 Jan 2008]

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 official port of call to complain about spam, said...

Tags: fax, spam

[11 Aug 2005]

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 said it has resolved 1,082 complaints out of...

Tags: information commissioner

[13 Jan 2006]

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