Tag: Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)

• Wednesday, November 7th 2018 - 08:23 UTC

  Pro-Brexit campaign and insurance company face fines of £135,000 over breaches of data laws

  

  Pro-Brexit campaign group Leave.EU and an insurance company owned by its founder Aaron Banks face total fines of £135,000 over breaches of data laws. It follows an Information Commissioner investigation into the misuse of personal data by political campaigns.

• Wednesday, July 11th 2018 - 08:25 UTC

  Facebook fined £500,000 in UK for failing to safeguard users' data

  

  The chairman of the U.K. Parliament's media committee says the government office that investigated the Cambridge Analytica scandal has fined Facebook £500,000 for failing to safeguard users' data.