Professor of Law & the Open Society, Co-Director of Centre for IP & Information Law (CIPIL) & Trinity Hall Fellow, Cambridge University
The Information Commissioner's Office has issued 0 fines & 0 enforcement notices against companies under UK #GDPR for an entire year (going by its own published information). This is despite this law saying that the ICO should fine here unless an infringement is "minor" & Commissioner telling Parliament at his confirmation that companies were hoovering up and retaining too much and it was it was his role to "bring them into line". We need much much effective and accountable #dataprotection regulation in the UK. Parliament should provide for this in the #DataBill. Upholding digital #humanrights has never been more important so the Equality and Human Rights Commission ought to take a look.
The European Commission should take this in to account in the UK data protection adequacy review, but they probably will just rubber stamp it.
Director at Amberhawk Training
4dSee my Hawktalk blog tomorrow where I go through the issues associated with the ICO and the lack of enforcement. Part 1 of this was published yesterday https://amberhawk.typepad.com/amberhawk/2025/02/data-bills-problems-exposed-as-government-rush-duab-through-parliament-part-1.html