Information Commissioner

Australian facial recognition firm collected 20 billion images from the internet without consent in order to build its database

The ICO’s IT budget has been slashed by around 23% since 2019

The effort will be a collaboration between the CMA, FCA, ICO, and Ofcom

The website, run jointly with Capita, has been offline since mid-March as MoD assesses the scope of the breach

We look at the mechanism citizens can use to hold public bodies to account

Fake companies were created using the stolen identities of hundreds of Shiseido employees, former staff claim

The WH Smith-owned card site has reported the breach to "the relevant regulators"

Individual rights come before anything else, John Edwards insists, amid government plot to rip up data protection laws

Error led to more than 1,000 people having their names and corresponding addresses posted online

The ICO has voiced "significant concerns" that the company has processed UK personal data without people's knowledge

Tech giant proposes a privacy sandbox to replace third-party tracking on Chrome

The new rules apply to new online advertising strategies which must place protections for users at the forefront

A joint investigation between the UK and Australia information commissioners has found that the AI company breached Australians’ privacy

The Open Rights Group says the data regulator should "follow its own conclusions and enforce the law"

The US, Australia, and South Korea are among the countries the government is prioritising for multi-billion-pound adequacy agreements

John Edwards is said to be an 'anti-Facebook' regulator who would fit well in the UK's plans to clamp down on big tech

100,000 customer names and addresses have been published to the dark web

The watchdog is calling for organisations to test its beta data assessment package on live AI applications

Health ministers use of all private messaging channels will be looked at, which may also include the use of WhatsApp

Reports claim the former health secretary "routinely" breached guidelines by using his personal Gmail for government business

The notorious facial recognition firm claims to have a database of more than three billion images scraped from social media sites

Tested.Me Ltd sent 84,000 ‘nuisance' emails to people who had scanned QR codes to check into venues during the COVID pandemic

The mechanism will replace the soon-to-be invalid EU standard contractual clauses