News stories tagged with fines

Poor data destruction of sexual health and staff data leads to £325,000 highest ever fine by UK ICO

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The UK Information Commissioner (ICO) announced today a record fine of £325,000 on Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust over failure to properly dispose of around 1,000 computer hard drives. As a result, 252 hard drives,...

ICO fines two companies £225,000 for PECR breaches

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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has again targeted companies that do not honour individuals’ opt out from marketing calls through the Telephone Preference Service. Nationwide Energy Services has received a penalty of £125,000, and We...

ICO: Fines are effective at improving data protection compliance

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Recent research by the ICO on the Impact of Civil Monetary Penalties (CMPs) suggests that organisations that have been issued with a fine now take their data protection obligations seriously, with revised practices and policies, and increased staf...

ICO fines Serious Fraud Office £180,000 and warns other law enforcement agencies

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The ICO has announced today that it has fined the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) £180,000 for wrongly disclosing evidence to witnesses in a bribery investigation. The bribery investigation into senior executives at BAE Systems had been concluded in...

Magistrates’ courts can now impose unlimited fines for DP Act criminal offences

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Since 12 March, Magistrates’ courts are no longer limited to £5,000 fines for criminal offences under the DP Act. The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Fines on Summary Conviction) Regulations 2015, which allow for an...

TalkTalk loses appeal at Information Tribunal: No leeway in data breach notification

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The Information Tribunal (The First Tier Tribunal) has dismissed TalkTalk’s appeal against the ICO’s decision to fine it £1,000 for a late data breach notification. The ICO had, on 17 February 2016, sent a Notice of Intent to issue a fixed monetar...

ICO: The GDPR regime will not mean changes in its appetite for fining

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The government’s statement of intent on Monday this week to legislate in GDPR-style also confirmed GDPR-level fines, but the Information Commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, says that maximum fines will not become the norm. Writing in a blog today,...

ICO will take proportionate approach to GDPR fines

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The ICO is not planning to issue fines in every circumstance when it detects a breach of the GDPR (or implementing legislation), ICO’s Steve Eckersley said at the CDPD conference in Brussels. Eckersley stated that the ICO will also have other...

Government consults on making directors liable for nuisance calls

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The government has launched a consultation on proposals to amend the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations  to make directors liable for nuisance calls. Maximum fines would be up to £500,000, and if a firm has multiple directors, each...

ICO confirms Facebook’s £500,000 fine and is to give evidence in Parliament on political influencing

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Facebook £500,000 for serious breaches of data protection law in the context of its wide-ranging investigation into the use of data analytics for political purposes. The company’s representatio...