In a blog post, the regulator said it had warned Serco Leisure, Serco Jersey and seven associated community leisure trusts to cease using the technology to track employees. Staff have no clear way to opt out of the monitoring system, which increases the power imbalance in the workplace, the ICO said. Employees were not offered …
Amidst the recent chaos in the cryptocurrency realm triggered by a fraudulent tweet from the compromised X account of the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), X CEO Elon Musk unleashed his master-level troll prowess with a biting tweet to SEC Chairman Gary Gensler (see below). Meanwhile, one digital currency has not only weathered the …
The ICO assessed the top 100 UK sites and found that 53 appeared to be non-compliant with the cookie rules set out in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) and the UK GDPR. It sent those organisations a warning letter, which it published at the end of last year following a FOI request by …
Information commissioner John Edwards, who leads the ICO, said the “deeply regrettable” breach “let down those to whom our country owes so much.” The “challenging” situation on the ground in 2021, when Western forces pulled out of Afghanistan, was “no excuse for not protecting people’s information who were vulnerable to reprisal and at risk of …