ICO
ICO guidance on data protection fees – notification is dead, long live registration
06 March 2018 - A&O , Fines , ICO Charlotte Mullarkey
To coincide with the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the UK data protection authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office (the ICO) has issued guidance on the new proposed fee arrangement for the registration of data controllers in the UK. Assuming this proposal is approved by Parliament, the new ‘data protection fee’ will come › Read More
A first look at the New UK Data Protection Bill
19 September 2017 - Praveeta Thayalan
The new UK Data Protection Bill (the Bill) was published on 14 September 2017 and, once enacted, will repeal the Data Protection Act 1998 (the DPA). The Bill preserves parts of the DPA and implements the standards of the General Data Protection Regulation (the GDPR) across the categories of data processing within the scope of › Read More
ICO investigation into the Royal Free’s use of patient data used as an opportunity to educate
14 July 2017 - Deepmind , ICO Charlotte Mullarkey
In a case which has wide implications for the health care sector, the ICO has ruled that the Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust failed to comply with the UK Data Protection Act when it provided personal data of about 1.6 million patients to Google DeepMind. The personal data was provided as part of a trial › Read More
ICO Promises to Perform on the International Stage
10 July 2017 - David Smith
Last month I commented on the Information Commissioner’s new Information Rights Strategic Plan which promised that there was more to come, not least an International Strategy for the ICO. Now that this International Strategy has been published it doesn’t disappoint. I must though confess to a certain amount of self interest here. When I was › Read More
The ICO’s New Strategic Plan – A Change Of Course Or Steady As She Goes?
06 June 2017 - ICO David Smith
You may have seen that on 25 May, with exactly one year to go until the GDPR takes effect, the Information Commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, published her office’s Information Rights Strategic Plan for 2017- 2021. This might not be headline grabbing stuff but it’s important nevertheless as it sets out how the ICO will be approaching › Read More
GDPR: Are we losing sight of today’s risks as we all look to the future?
25 May 2017 - Fines , GDPR , ICO David Smith
This week all eyes are on the future. There’s just one year to go until the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on 25 May 2018 and we have the promise, in the Conservative Party’s manifesto, that here in the UK we will be getting a new data protection law that is › Read More