The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) wants people to support their elderly relatives or neighbours if they are receiving nuisance marketing calls.
Link: ICO fines funeral plan firm and asks public to help elderly relatives to report nuisance calls
Source: ICO .org.uk
Link: Blog: Children’s privacy – new standards for online services will help protect children
Source: ICO .org.uk
Today the Information Commissioner’s Office opens consultation on 16 standards that online services must meet to protect children’s privacy.
Age appropriate design: a code of practice for online services sets out the standards expected of those responsible for designing, developing or providing…
Link: ICO launches consultation on Code of Practice to help protect children online
Source: ICO .org.uk
Continuing our AI auditing framework blog series , Reuben Binns, our Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Valeria Gallo, Technology Policy Adviser, explore how the data protection principle of accuracy applies to AI systems, and propose some steps organisations should take to ensure compliance.
Link: Accuracy of AI system outputs and performance measures
Source: ICO .org.uk
In the first detailed element of our AI framework blog series, Reuben Binns, our Research Fellow in AI, and Valeria Gallo, Technology Policy Adviser, explore how organisations can ensure ‘meaningful’ human involvement to make sure AI decisions are not classified as solely automated by mistake.
Link: Automated Decision Making: the role of meaningful human reviews (hosted on Blogger)
Source: ICO .org.uk
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Bounty (UK) Limited £400,000 for illegally sharing personal information belonging to more than 14 million people.
Link: Bounty UK fined £400,000 for sharing personal data unlawfully
Source: ICO .org.uk
Steve Wood reminds public and private organisations that new data protection legislation does not stop them from disclosing personal data to assist police forces or other law enforcement authorities.
Link: Blog: Data Protection law does not prevent information sharing to save lives and stop crime
Source: ICO .org.uk
A television production company which unfairly and unlawfully filmed patients at a maternity clinic has been fined £120,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
Link: ICO fines production company £120,000 for unlawful filming in maternity clinic
Source: ICO .org.uk
Recognising the increasingly vital role played by professionals working in the sector, the second ICO Practitioner Award for Excellence in Data Protection was presented to Mikko Niva, Group Policy Officer at Vodafone Group Services Ltd based in London.
Link: ICO announces winner of Data Protection Officer of the Year awarded for Excellence in Data Protection
Source: ICO .org.uk
Elizabeth Denham’s speech at the Data Protection Practitioners’ Conference on 8 April 2019.
Link: Data Protection Practitioners’ Conference 2019
Source: ICO .org.uk
