The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is stepping up its supervision of AI and biometric technologies, launching a new strategy in Parliament today, which includes a review of the use of ...

The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued Merseyside-based DDP Law Ltd (DPP) a £60,000 fine following a cyber-attack which resulted in highly sensitive and confidential personal ...

The recently departed Information Commissioner feared that her successor will have to downsize the office because of budget constraints. Gitanjali Gutierrez, who stepped down in February after ten ...

On February 20, 2025, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) published its annual Tech Horizons Report (the “Report”), which explores four key technologies expected to play a ...

TikTok, Reddit, and Imgur face an ICO investigation into handling teenage users' data, increasing regulatory scrutiny TikTok, along with online forum site Reddit and image-sharing site Imgur, are to ...

ICO identifies new technologies that will collect personal data on a vast scale. Are enterprises ready for the deluge?

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has expanded its review of cookie compliance online to the top 1,000 websites in the UK as it looks to clamp down on poor practice in the industry. The ...

In previous draft guidance, the ICO’s position was that data controllers could rely on legitimate interests as a legal basis for training AI models on web-scraped data, provided that they could ...

On 11 October 2024, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued a GDPR reprimand to a Hampshire law firm following a data breach that affected over 8,000 individuals. Levales Solicitors ...

A law firm that was hacked and had sensitive client data published on the dark web has been reprimanded by the Information Commissioner’s Office.

The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published a new audit framework to help businesses comply with data protection rules. The framework, which is an extension of the ICO’s existing ...

Sky Bet has been reprimanded by the ICO which said the site was unlawfully using advertising cookies without consent.