UK Information Commissioner's Office

http://www.ico.gov.uk/

Last activity: 24.01.2013

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Jan 24, 2013	Sony fined $395,000 for 2011 hack of its PlayStation Network	reader comments 51 with 40 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit A UK government body has fined Sony £250,000 (about $394,570) for the devastating 2011 hack of its PlayStation Network, whi...
Oct 9, 2012	Nearly Half of Senior IT Professionals in the UK Admit They Have Experienced Data Breach	New Report Highlights Need to Focus on Data-centric Security to Protect Data and Reduce Damaging Breaches LONDON, October 9, 2012 – Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq:INFA), the world’s number one independent provider of data integration softw...
Jul 28, 2012	Google admits breaching UK data privacy agreement	In May 2010, Google hit the headlines when it was revealed that street mapping cars had accidentally collected around 600GB of payload data from unsecured wireless networks around the globe. The news caused a privacy storm and led to legal ...
Jul 27, 2012	UK Information Commissioner Slams Google For Failure To Provide Street View Data	Google has been in ongoing discussions (some might say a war of words) with The UK’s Information Commissioner. If you remember, Google’s street cars captured all sorts of information other than just pictures, like WiFi nodes and even IP tra...
Jun 13, 2012	UK Privacy Agency Reopens Inquiry into Google Street View Spying	Just when the fallout of the Google Street View spying fiasco appears to have subsided in the United States, evidence of Google having “deliberately captured” payload data from unsuspecting wi-fi users has prompted the United Kingdom’s Info...
May 28, 2012	EU Privacy Directive: Why All The Fuss? Just Be Open With Users	EU Cookie legislation is now in force across Europe, but in a last minute change on Friday, the UK’s information commissioner amended the way it will be implemented in the UK. It’s now the case that sites will only have to obtain ‘implied c...
May 28, 2012	Google Accused of Stealing Info With Street View Cars	Independent British data protection watchdog Information Commissioner Office (ico.gov.uk) has launched an inquiry into accusations that Google is using Street View Cars to spy on residents of Great Britain. According to DailyMail, they are ...
Apr 27, 2012	The hard drives most likely to expose your data aren’t your own	reader comments 24 with 15 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Hard drives that provide prime material for identity theft are more likely to come from a company for which you are an empl...
Aug 16, 2011	UK’s ICO ‘Satisfied’ With Google’s Privacy Policy Improvements, Asks For More	The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) this morning said Google has taken “reasonable steps to improve its privacy policies”, following a consensual audit of the company’s privacy processes held at its London office last July. The...
Jul 26, 2011	Hacking Chutzpah: Rival Feasts on Murdoch's Woes, Sans Irony	Image via Wikipedia
Nov 3, 2010	ICO In The UK: Google Street View's Personal Data Represents ‘Significant Breach’	Man, another day, another “Google in privacy uproar” story. I guess my name is Phil Connors. The UK Information Commissioner has said that yes, in fact, Google did commit a “significant breach” of the Data Privacy Act when it collected peop...
Jul 29, 2010	Google in the clear over UK WiFi snooping	reader comments 16 with 15 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit The Information Commissioner's Office has said that Google did not grab "significant" amounts of personal data wh...
Aug 17, 2009	SpinVox: What to do if you're concerned about your privacy	Having witnessed the extent to which humans are involved in transcribing messages for SpinVox, I have become concerned about the privacy of my data and personal communications. Although I’ve now cancelled my SpinVox subscription, I know (be...
Apr 23, 2009	UK rejects privacy group’s gripes about Google Street View	reader comments 16 with 14 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in the UK has once again given the thumbs-up to Google's Street View after revi...
Mar 26, 2009	Another day, another Google privacy kerfuffle	One suspects that sooner or later Google will catch grief from every single person who's ever felt grumpy about all those other people cluttering up his or her planet, as yet another privacy "watchdog" complains about the search s...
Mar 24, 2009	What CCTV? UK group: Google Street View real privacy threat	reader comments 19 with 17 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit A UK privacy group has filed a formal complaint about Google's Street View to the Office of the Information Commissioner (I...
Dec 5, 2008	Accused of Illegal File-Sharing? Complain to the Government	Following numerous TorrentFreak investigations, today the BBC has published numerous articles, online and on radio about companies and lawyers who track down alleged file-sharers in the UK. If you have received a letter from lawyers Davenpo...
Nov 19, 2008	One more BNP thing – heatmaps replace pins, but Pandora's box is now open	One of the interesting debates that surrounded today’s story about the BNP was what to do with the data once it got out. So far it’s pretty clear that the names and addresses of members of the BNP are way out of bounds in a legal sense. The...
Aug 1, 2008	Amid controversy, Google Street View gets approval in UK	Despite strong apprehension from EU legislators toward Google's Street View mapping technique, the UK Information Commissioner's Office has reportedly found Google's privacy safeguards acceptable and will allow the company's roving 360 degr...
Dec 17, 2007	Simplistic Security Could Cause Corporate Collapse in 2008, Warns Secerno	Database security expert argues intelligent behaviour analysis will be key Oxford, United Kingdom, 17 December 2007 – Secerno (www.secerno.com), the technology leader in data security, today warned that simplistic security solutions based o...

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Parsers VC has collected 21 articles mentioning UK Information Commissioner's Office, among them “Sony fined $395,000 for 2011 hack of its PlayStation Network” (Jan 24, 2013) and “Nearly Half of Senior IT Professionals in the UK Admit They Have Experienced Data Breach” (Oct 9, 2012).

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UK Information Commissioner's Office is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jan 24, 2013.