Action we've taken Enforcement action 189 in total Lifecycle Marketing (Mother and Baby) Ltd 09 August 2018, Monetary penalties, Marketing The ICO has fined Lifecycle Marketing (Mother and Baby) Ltd, also known as Emma’s Diary, £140,000 for illegally collecting and selling personal information belonging to more than one million people.… AMS Marketing Ltd 01 August 2018, Monetary penalties, Marketing The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined AMS Marketing Ltd £100,000 for making 75,649 nuisance calls. Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse 18 July 2018, Monetary penalties, Central government Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) fined £200,000 for revealing identities of abuse victims in mass email. STS Commercial Limited 06 July 2018, Monetary penalties, General business A South Wales firm has been fined £60,000 by the Information Commissioner for allowing its lines to be used to send spam texts to more than 270,000 people, without their consent. Noble Design and Build of Telford 03 July 2018, Prosecutions Noble Design and Build of Telford, Shropshire, which operates CCTV systems in buildings across Sheffield, broke data protection laws by failing to comply with an Information Notice. The company… Our Vault Ltd 28 June 2018, Enforcement notices, Finance insurance and credit The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has taken enforcement action against two firms for making nuisance telephone calls - Our Vault Limited in Chorley, Lancashire, and Swansea-based Horizon Windows Limited. Enforcement Notices have been issued to both companies ordering the firms to stop their illegal marketing activity. Horizon Windows 28 June 2018, Enforcement notices, Retail and manufacture The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has taken enforcement action against two firms for making nuisance telephone calls - Our Vault Limited in Chorley, Lancashire, and Swansea-based Horizon Windows Limited. Enforcement Notices have been issued to both companies ordering the firms to stop their illegal marketing activity. Our Vault Ltd 28 June 2018, Monetary penalties, Finance insurance and credit Our Vault was fined £70,000 for making 55,534 unsolicited marketing calls to people who had registered with the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) and had not consented to being contacted by the company. British Telecommunications plc 20 June 2018, Monetary penalties, Online technology and telecoms British Telecommunications plc (BT) has been fined £77,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office after it sent nearly five million nuisance emails to customers. Ainsworth Lord Estates Limited 18 June 2018, Enforcement notices, Land or property services Ainsworth Lord Estates Limited has been served with an Enforcement Notice for failing to respond to a subject access request. Gloucestershire Police 11 June 2018, Monetary penalties, Criminal justice Gloucestershire Police fined for revealing identities of abuse victims in bulk email. Humberside Police 08 June 2018, Undertakings, Criminal justice The Chief Constable of Humberside Police has signed an undertaking to comply with the Seventh Data Protection Principle. The British & Foreign Bible Society c/o the Bible Society 07 June 2018, Monetary penalties The British and Foreign Bible Society, based in Swindon, has been fined £100,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office, after their computer network was compromised as the result of a… Bayswater Medical Centre 23 May 2018, Monetary penalties, Health Bayswater Medical Centre in London has been fined £35,000 by the ICO after it left highly sensitive medical information in an empty building. The University of Greenwich 21 May 2018, Monetary penalties, Education and childcare The University of Greenwich has been fined £120,000 by the Information Commissioner following a “serious” security breach involving the personal data of nearly 20,000 people. Yahoo! UK Services Ltd 21 May 2018, Monetary penalties, Online technology and telecoms Yahoo! UK Services Limited, based in London, has been fined £250,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office after their computer network was compromised as the result of a cyber-attack in November 2014. Daniel Short 17 May 2018, Prosecutions, General business A former Recruitment Consultant who illegally obtained personal information, namely information relating to clients and service users, has been prosecuted. Crown Prosecution Service 16 May 2018, Monetary penalties, Criminal justice The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has been fined £325,000 by the ICO after they lost unencrypted DVDs containing recordings of police interviews. SCL Elections Limited 05 May 2018, Enforcement notices, Marketing The Information Commissioner’s Office has served a legal notice on SCL Elections Ltd ordering it give an academic all the personal information the company holds about him. ANA Consulting (AB) Groupe Ltd and Mr Ahmed Hamza Atcha 01 May 2018, Prosecutions, General business A company and a company director who failed to comply with an Information Notice has been prosecuted. ANA Consulting (AB) Groupe Ltd and Mr Ahmed Hamza Atcha, of Chorley Road, Westhoughton,… Costelloe & Kelly Ltd 01 May 2018, Monetary penalties, Marketing Costelloe & Kelly Ltd undertook a direct text marketing campaign without a valid consent to individuals in contravention of Regulation 22 of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003. IAG Nationwide Ltd 01 May 2018, Enforcement notices, Marketing Unsolicited calls for direct marketing purposes to subscribers who had registered with the Telephone Preference Service in contravention of Regulations 21 and 24 of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003. IAG Nationwide Ltd 01 May 2018, Monetary penalties, Marketing Unsolicited calls for direct marketing purposes to subscribers who had registered with the Telephone Preference Service in contravention of Regulations 21 and 24 of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003. Michelle Harrison 23 April 2018, Prosecutions, Health Michelle Harrison of Milton Keynes, inappropriately accessed the records of 12 patients outside of her role as receptionist/general assistant in the Orthotics Department at Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust between March 2016 and January 2017. Mr Alex Goldthorpe t/a Approved Green Energy Solutions 18 April 2018, Monetary penalties, Land or property services Unsolicited calls for direct marketing purposes to subscribers who had registered with the Telephone Preference Service in c ontravention of Regulation 21 of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003. Loading results More