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Violation of Article 6(1)(a) GDPR by processing personal data without consent or any other legal basis. When imposing the fine, the AEPD took into account: The type of data affected: basic identifiers such as names, surnames, phone number. The relation between the processing and the business activities of the respondent.
The ICO had previously said the fine would have been £5.6m had it not applied discretion. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...
The financial strain of the COVID-19 pandemic was cited as one reason for the reduced fine. [5] In 2021 the law firm Pogust and Goodhead announced that they were representing a group of BA customers who had been affected by the breach in "the largest group-action personal-data claim in UK history". [6] The class was settled out of court. [7]
Since Elizabeth Denham was appointed Britain's Information Commissioner in 2016, the ICO has undertaken high-profile investigations into Equifax, Yahoo, Talk Talk, Uber, and Facebook; issuing the maximum fine under the Data Protection Act 1998 of £500,000 to Facebook, [9] for breaches of data protection law. Denham has also overseen the ...
TikTok has been fined £12.7M ($15.9M) by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for several breaches of children’s data protection law. John Edwards, the UK’s Information ...
The Information Commissioner's Office has responsibility for the enforcement of unsolicited e-mails and considers complaints about breaches. A breach of an enforcement notice is a criminal offence subject to a fine of up to £500,000 depending on the circumstances. [1]
The following is a list of UK government data losses. It lists reported instances of the loss of personal data by UK central and local government, agencies, non-departmental public bodies, etc., whether directly or indirectly because of the actions of private-sector contractors. Such losses tend to receive widespread media coverage in the UK.
The breaches were first reported by the Guardian in early 2018, and Facebook received fines from regulators in the United States and the UK in 2019. Australia's privacy regulator has been caught ...