Reuben Binns, our Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Valeria Gallo, Technology Policy Adviser, discuss some of the techniques organisations can use to comply with data minimisation requirements when adopting AI systems.
Link: Data minimisation and privacy-preserving techniques in AI systems
Source: ICO .org.uk
Reuben Binns, our Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Valeria Gallo, Technology Policy Adviser, discuss some of the techniques organisations can use to comply with data minimisation requirements when adopting AI systems.
Link: Data minimisation and privacy-preserving techniques in AI systems
Source: ICO .org.uk
Statement from Elizabeth Denham, Information Commissioner, on the use of live facial recognition technology in Kings Cross, London.
Link: Statement: Live facial recognition technology in Kings Cross
Source: ICO .org.uk
The advent of the GDPR in May 2018 brought new data protection obligations for many organisations. Some of this presented a challenge, particularly for smaller organisations like parish and town councils, who we saw were keen to demonstrate their compliance but needed support to achieve this.
Link: Blog: Three top issues for town and parish councils
Source: ICO .org.uk
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is consulting on a new framework code of practice for the use of personal data in political campaigning.
The framework code will serve both as helpful guidance in its own right as well as having the potential to become a statutory code of practice if…
Link: ICO launches consultation on the draft framework code of practice for the use of personal data in political campaigning
Source: ICO .org.uk
In April, I blogged about the ICO’s work to help protect children online. I’m pleased to report that my team and I are making good progress on producing a code that will translate General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements into design standards for online services.
Link: Protecting children online: update on progress of ICO code
Source: ICO .org.uk
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has joined data protection authorities around the world in raising common data protection concerns about the proposed Libra digital currency and infrastructure.
Link: ICO joins international signatories in raising Libra data protection concerns
Source: ICO .org.uk
Reuben Binns, our Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Valeria Gallo, Technology Policy Adviser, discuss some of the key safeguards organisations should implement when using solely automated AI systems to make decisions with significant impacts on data subjects.
Link: Fully automated decision making AI systems (blogger post)
Source: ICO .org.uk
Making it Easy Ltd has been fined £160,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for making spam calls to people registered with the Telephone Preference Service (TPS).
Link: ICO fines boiler replacement company for thousands of nuisance calls made to TPS subscribers
Source: ICO .org.uk
In July 2017, following reports concerning the use of Google DeepMind’s Streams application at the Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust, the ICO announced that the processing of personal data within Streams was not compliant with the Data Protection Act 1998 – the relevant data protection law at the time. Having identified several shortcomings with the data processing, the Trust signed an undertaking committing it to bringing the processing into line with data protection laws, including the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
Link: Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust update, July 2019
Source: ICO .org.uk
