#ico — Public Fediverse posts
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ICO Reprimands Criminal Records Office After 2023 Data Breach - https://www.redpacketsecurity.com/ico-reprimands-criminal-records-office-after-2023-breach/
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Data protection is key to regulate AI and promote online safety, child protection workers’ rights and public service delivery.
Without proper regulation and policing of data practices, harms ensue, public trust erodes and markets fail.
That's why we need a UK data regulator with teeth.
Sign and share the petition ⬇️
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The ICO needs an overhaul of its regulatory and enforcement posture.
The UK government has an opportunity to restore effective oversight of data protection rule.
It's essential for trustworthy public sector delivery, innovation that benefits workers, and a digital economy that works for the public.
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The meltdown of the UK data regulator's leadership underscores the need to restore integrity at the top.
This starts with an end to the revolving door of senior staff working for the industries or companies that they were meant to police.
Establishing proper boundaries against corporate influence is necessary.
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The ICO has actively pushed for age verification measures in the UK at the expense of privacy.
This fails to address the repurposing of personal data from age checks for targeted online advertising.
In turn, advertising data is used to drive up engagement, exploit addictions and target harmful content.
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Is the UK data regulator is without a head. But its problems run deeper 🚧
The ICO has taken its hands off the wheel by failing to enforce data protection law for a long time.
As the search for a new Commissioner gets underway, the ICO needs a fundamental reset that puts our rights first.
Read our blog ⬇️
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/wanted-government-to-fix-the-ico/
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Lacking proper arms-length from the UK government, the ICO hasn't properly supervised public bodies, allowing data malpractices to spread.
This is clear in the failure to take action over the MoD's Afghan data breach, the Home Office's flawed eVisa scheme and HMRC's unjust crackdown on child benefits.
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Despite recognising that automated systems expose workers to heightened risks of discrimination and wage-theft, the ICO has taken no enforcement action.
The outgoing Commissioner even backed down to let UK data protection reforms gut our right not to be subject to solely automated decision-making.
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Last week we sent a letter signed by 20 organisations calling for an investigation into the UK data regulator for failings over the eVisa scheme.
Despite issues with the scheme being raised from the start, the ICO hasn't taken action against the UK Home Office to protect migrants' data rights.
We need answers.
#ico #evisa #homeoffice #dataprotection #gdpr #migrants #ukpolitics #ukpol
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The Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee must ensure data protection is taken seriously by the UK Home Office and upheld by the ICO.
With the position of Information Commissioner now vacant, MPs must push government to deliver a regulator with teeth.
Sign our petition #ResetTheICO ⬇️
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/reset-ico
#ico #evisa #homeoffice #dataprotection #gdpr #migrants #ukpolitics #ukpol
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https://action.openrightsgroup.org/reset-ico
One of the major problems with trying to ensure #privacy and enforce the #gdpr is the lack of any meaningful action by the #ico. This will get worse when we are forced into more #ageverification systems and a #digitalidentity
The Open Rights Group have a petition to strengthen the role and powwers of the ICO. If it’s something you agree with, please sign it.
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These failings are not just in relation to the UK eVisa scheme, but a wider issue with the ICO’s poor track record on enforcement.
The letter calls on the Committee to investigate what institutional changes are needed to strengthen the ICO's ability to oversee the government and other public bodies.
#dataprotection #evisa #ico #gdpr #migrants #homeoffice #ukpolitics #ukpol
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This comes after John Edwards’ resignation as Information Commissioner last week.
ORG calls on the UK government to appoint a regulator with teeth.
We must reset the regulators’ approach of providing data protection in name only and have them actually enforce our data rights.
Sign our petition ⬇️
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/reset-ico
#dataprotection #evisa #ico #gdpr #migrants #homeoffice #ukpolitics #ukpol
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Last year, ORG and 18 other civil society organisations called on the ICO to investigate breaches resulting from the UK eVisa scheme.
Seven months later, the ICO hasn't taken any action to address these infringements of data protection law.
Meanwhile, migrants continue to have their lives affected.
#dataprotection #evisa #ico #gdpr #migrants #homeoffice #ukpolitics #ukpol
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The UK Home Office has known about problems with the eVisa scheme from the start.
Its poor design and lack of Data Protection Impact Assessment has resulted in breaches.
But the Home Office is still failing to be transparent about the volume of complaints and how and when they will deal with them.
#dataprotection #evisa #ico #gdpr #migrants #homeoffice #ukpolitics #ukpol
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NEW: 20 civil society organisations have called for an investigation into the UK Information Commissioner's Office for failing to uphold data protection law in relation to eVisas.
This scheme has been plagued with breaches and accessibility issues.
And the ICO has done nothing to hold the UK Home Office to account.
Find out more ⬇️
#dataprotection #evisa #ico #gdpr #migrants #homeoffice #ukpolitics #ukpol
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In an FOI response, the ICO did reveal that they'd received 851 complaints about the UK Home Office as a whole between 2023 and 2025.
The volume of complaints was so significant, the ICO was unable to identify how many were about the eVisa scheme specifically.
The Select Committee must investigate.
#dataprotection #evisa #ico #gdpr #migrants #homeoffice #ukpolitics #ukpol
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3️⃣ Reset the regulators.
The UK government has hobbled the data regulator and the Competition and Markets Authority, pushing them to go easy on market abuse.
This has resulted in a failure to take action when our rights are harmed and has failed to act in the interest of UK businesses.
Find out more ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/reset-the-ico/
#andyburnham #labour #digitalpolicy #digitalrights #starmer #ukpolitics #ukpol #ico #cma #competition #dataprotection
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A regulator that fails to deter bad practices isn't worth having.
The UK ICO has allowed a light touch regime for data protection that increases breaches.
ORG has set out how we must #ResetTheICO so that it enforces our data rights.
Sign our petition ➡️ https://action.openrightsgroup.org/reset-ico
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It's time to appoint a data regulator with teeth.
Following the resignation of the UK Information Commissioner, John Edwards, ORG calls on Parliament to take this opportunity to reset the ICO.
That means ending the lax approach to enforcement, including against government data failures.
Read more ⬇️
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John Edwards has overseen multiple failings, including the so-called public sector approach to enforcement in the UK.
This relied on non-enforceable written notices that the law had been broken without any regulatory action to remedy infringements or hold law-breakers to account.
We must #ResetTheICO.
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@happyborg I agree. But we mustn’t stop trying. Like you, I refuse to use some services due to their (non) privacy policies and am annoyed at the lack of effectivenes of organisations that are funded by our money to stop companies from carrying out these activities.
I work on the premise that:
1. If we all keep moaning at the companies, the Government and ICO someone might listen and something might happen🤔
2. If we keep sharing this information and let everyone know whats happening maybe they, too, will stop using these companies and move to privacy respecting alternatives. 😉Let’s keep trying😁
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@happyborg if they claim “legitimate interest”. They need to have carried out and documented a Legitimate Interests Assessment (LIA).
This is the three-part balancing test outlined by the ICO (UK) and supported by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB).Ask them if you can have a copy of it. They wont have one and the ICO wont care, but you can still ask.
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A law only works if it's enforced.
Yet time and time again, the UK Information Commissioner's Office has failed to protect our data rights.
Our privacy relies on a regulator that will take action against the government and private sector at a time of escalating threats.
We need to #ResetTheICO.
Sign and share the petition ⬇️
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/reset-ico
#ICO #ResetTheICO #dataprotection #gdpr #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol
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"John Edwards' departure is a chance for the [UK] Government to appoint a regulator with teeth, and reset the regulators' approach of providing data protection in name only."
"Parliament must ensure that the future Commission is run by professionals who want the law enforced, including against government data failures."
🗣️ ORG's @jim.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0eyq7rnn22o
#ICO #ResetTheICO #dataprotection #gdpr #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol
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I'm uncertain how parliament works.
Recently I emailed my MP (Martin Vickers https://www.martinvickers.org.uk/) asking him to vote in favour of NC13 on the Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/4035/stages/20525/amendments/10034731). This amendment makes it a requirement for the Government to publish a Digital Sovereignty Strategy. I pointed out my reasons for requesting this rather than just sounding like some random request out of nowhere.
Unfortunately, I heard nothing back from Mr Vickers. Not even an automated reply.
I checked the results of the vote to see if the amendment had been accepted at https://votes.parliament.uk/votes/commons/division/2374. To my surprise Mr Vickers had not voted either way, nor had there been a proxy vote for him.
I appreciate that I am not the only constituent in Mr Vickers area and he may have other, more pressing matters to deal with. But surely in this modern age, a simple, automated response stating he is unable (or even unwilling) to vote as I requested would be courtesy.
In trying to support privacy and respect on the Internet, by far my biggest hurdle is actually getting anyone with any responsibility to engage in any way, shape or form. This includes Government Departments, Government Representatives, registered data protection officers and businesses alike.
The government are already jumping off at the deep end trying to bring in laws that everybody knows won't work and are not listening to the public who frequently say they don't want them.
There is no point implementing laws that either can't be enforced because its impossible to do so, or aren't enforced because the people responsible can't or won't enforce them.
Many of the laws (Like the under 16's ban on social media) will fail to achieve any of the aims the government has promised because those aims are not the reason for the law. Government are sneaking in more surveillance on false promises which is annoying for 2 reasons: firstly, they are sneaking in laws under false pretences and secondly, children under 16 will still not be safe on the Internet.
The system of a Parliament that represents the people backed up by a Government that implements the policies of that Parliament with Departments employing people doing the required work seems to have long since disappeared.
It makes me think that these people obviously spend way to much time monitoring surveillance videos / data to be able to do their real job!!!
#privacy #ico #government #digitalsovereignty #digitalID #surveillance #parliament
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RE: https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@jim/116776021424837568
The head of the UK data regulator has GONE!
Politicians should take this opportunity to fix an organisation that has failed to enforce our data protection laws and rights for years.
This isn't just about changing the person at the top, the Information Commissioner's Office needs to be fundamentally reset.
Sign the petition ⬇️
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The Information Commissioner John Edwards has resigned with immediate effect, due to conduct allegations. #dataprotection #ico #johnedwards
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7473590282803052544/