Public organisations hold a huge amount of information across a wide range of areas.

ICO Deputy Chief Executive, Paul Arnold and Senior Independent Director, Nicola Wood have been awarded MBEs in the King’s New Year Honours List. 
Paul Arnold receives his award for services to Regulation, and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Paul has over 25 years’ experience regulating data…

Facial recognition technology can bring benefits in helping to prevent and detect crime, but it relies on processing large amounts of sensitive personal data.

Enforcement notice issued to Greater Manchester Police over failure to clear Freedom of Information backlog

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued Bank of Ireland UK with a reprimand for mistakes made on more than 3,000 customers’ credit profiles.

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined the Ministry of Defence (MoD) £350,000 for disclosing personal information of people seeking relocation to the UK shortly after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 2021.

We are producing an online resource with topic-specific guidance on employment practices and data protection. We are releasing our drafts of the different topic areas in stages and adding to the resource over time, and two new pieces of guidance are now out for public consultation.

The Court of Appeal has ruled that the government must make changes to the immigration exemption in the Data Protection Act 2018 to make it clearer.

Housing organisations require personal data to provide services and support to their residents – this could be anything from contact details to medical records.

Earlier this year, you may have seen media reports about people receiving unwanted contact from ‘text pests’ after using services such as booking a taxi or ordering a pizza.