Tag Archives: ICO
ICO fines credit broker for unsolicited texts
The ICO has fined a credit broker £20,000 for sending unsolicited communications in breach of regulation 22 of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003. Munee Hut markets its services partly through affiliates that send marketing texts that direct recipients to Munee Hut’s website. Between mid-2015 and spring 2016, 885 complaints were made about receipt […]
ICO and FCA hold big data use forum
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and FCA have published a summary of their forum on the use of Big Data in retail general insurance. The forum, held on 16 January 2017, was to engage with the insurance industry following stakeholder concerns raised as part of FCA’s call for input, on which it published a feedback statement […]
ICO fines RSA for DP breach
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance PLC (RSA) with a monetary penalty notice (£150,000) because of a serious breach of the seventh principle (the requirement to keep data secure) of the Data Protection Act 1998 by RSA. Between 18 May 2015 and 30 July 2015, a portable Network Attached […]
ICO revises Privacy Notices code of Practice
The ICO has recently issued a revised Privacy Notices Code of Practice, which we have reviewed in our recent article on the Code for the Privacy and Data Protection Journal.
UK confirms adoption of the GDPR
The UK Government has confirmed that the UK will adopt the GDPR . Secretary of State Karen Bradley MP stated: ‘We will be members of the EU in 2018 and therefore it would be expected and quite normal for us to opt into the GDPR and then look later at how best we might be […]
