Blog: Don’t get caught out when it comes to pupil photos
A blog by Andrew Laing, ICO Head of Data Protection Complaints We’ve issued two reprimands, which are legal warnings, recently to schools for wrongly disclosing the personal
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Blog: The benefits of sharing personal data – what can we learn from Open Banking?
6 January 2020 The ICO’s Regulators’ Business Innovation Privacy Hub has recently been looking at the key data protection considerations for innovators who are working in the
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Blog: The Data Protection Fee: does your company need to pay?
Paul Arnold, Deputy Chief Executive Officer/Executive Officer 03 December 2019 We have launched a campaign to contact all registered companies in the UK reminding them of their legal
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Blog: ICO and The Alan Turing Institute open consultation on first piece of AI guidance
2 December 2019 A blog aimed at data scientists, app developers, business owners, CEOs or data protection practitioners, whose organisations are using, or
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Blog: Data ethics and the digital economy
By Simon McDougall, Executive Director – Technology Policy and Innovation, ICO 18 November 2019 How do we balance the interests of society against individual rights, on issues like facial
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Blog: Why special category personal data needs to be handled even more carefully
By Ian Hulme, Director for Regulatory Assurance. 14 November 2019 Imagine if your medical records, information about your sex life or your political opinions were put into the
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ICO’s blog on its information rights work
Colleagues from the ICO’s access to information and compliance department share their experiences and involvement in raising awareness of our regulation of access to information legislation. Access
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Blog: Live facial recognition technology – police forces need to slow down and justify its use
By Elizabeth Denham, Information Commissioner. As far back as Sir Robert Peel, the powers of the police have always been seen as dependent on public support of
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Blog: Embedding accountability – we want to hear from you
A blog by Ian Hulme, Director for Regulatory Assurance As a regulator, we can see how the use of personal data has changed over the past few
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Blog: How coming to work at the ICO on a secondment can benefit both of us
By Simon McDougall, ICO Executive Director for Technology and Innovation 22 October 2019 The ICO is a varied and exciting place to work. On any given day, our employees
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