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Information commissioner

July 2024

  • A sign outside a polling station in central Westminster, London

    Online security lapses led to data of 40m UK voters being hacked, says ICO

  • a view of the River Lea near the Olympic park in Stratford, east London, showing brownish foam and scum around a grille from an overflow pipe; the waterway is otherwise pretty, with tall greenery, plants and trees to either side, and is seen on a greyish day with light reflecting off the water

    Information commissioner urges water firms to ‘be open’ about sewage spills

April 2024

  • an illustration of facial recognition software being used on passers-by

    Leisure centres scrap biometric systems to keep tabs on staff amid UK data watchdog clampdown

    Firms such as Serco and Virgin Active pull facial recognition and fingerprint scan systems used to monitor staff attendance

February 2024

  • Facial recognition technology on display at a tech conference in Beijing

    Serco ordered to stop using facial recognition technology to monitor staff

    Biometric data of more than 2,000 staff at 38 leisure centres was unlawfully processed to check attendance, watchdog finds

January 2024

  • Nigel Farage

    Nigel Farage lobbied senior Tory minister over NatWest complaint

    Emily Thornberry accuses Farage and Andrew Griffith of ‘secretly conspiring’ over de-banking issue

December 2023

  • A man uses a smartphone and app to pay for street parking

    Hackers steal customer data from Europe’s largest parking app operator

    Owner of RingGo and ParkMobile says data including parts of credit card numbers taken in cyber-attack

November 2023

  • Alison Rose and Nigel Farage

    ICO apologises to ex-NatWest chief over claim she broke privacy law on Farage

    Watchdog says it was ‘incorrect’ to suggest Alison Rose breached law by discussing ex-Ukip leader’s banking with journalist

October 2023

  • Alison Rose and Nigel Farage

    Ex-NatWest chief breached Nigel Farage’s privacy, watchdog rules

    ICO will not take further action over Alison Rose speaking to BBC journalist about planned closure of Farage’s accounts
  • Daren Fitzhenry has just finished his six-year term as Scottish information commissioner.

    Call to extend Scottish FoI laws to private firms running public services

    Exclusive: Outgoing information commissioner says transparency eroded by rapid rise in outsourcing
  • People work in an office with computers and tablets.

    One in five UK adults believe they have been monitored by an employer

    Exclusive: Survey comes as unions say workplace surveillance increased during the pandemic

August 2023

  • Cropped shot of an unrecognisable delivery man handing a package to a female customer

    Customer data used for unwanted romantic contact, UK poll shows

  • Cumbria police officers at this year’s Appleby horse fair.

    Cumbria police admit huge breach of data of officers and staff

  • The PSNI chief constable, Simon Byrne

    Northern Ireland police chief urged to consider position over data breach

  • Chris Todd

    Northern Ireland police data breach is second in weeks, force reveals

  • Electoral Commission and PSNI data breaches: what we know so far

  • Electoral Commission apologises for security breach involving UK voters’ data

July 2023

  • The Capita headquarters in the Copyright building, Berners Street, central London.

    Capita boss quits as potential fine looms for huge hack of confidential data

    Jon Lewis, the chief executive, is to step down as troubled outsourcing firm reels from March cyber-attack

June 2023

  • Gert-Jan Oskam walking with a stick

    Mind-reading tech ‘must include neurodivergent people to avoid bias’

    UK data watchdog says science of monitoring brain and nervous system is expanding fast but holds ‘real danger’ of discrimination

May 2023

  • NHS websites shared data with Facebook via the Meta Pixel tool.

    NHS data breach: trusts shared patient details with Facebook without consent

  • Nicola Bulley

    Nicola Bulley: police will not face action over release of information

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