Who Is The Information Commissioners Office?
The Information Commissioners Office are:
“The UK’s independent authority set up to uphold information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals.”
Source: Information Commissioners Office (2016) (External Link)
What Do They Do?
Register of Data Controllers
Legislation We Cover
Handling Concerns
Taking Action - Data Protection: (DPA)
Taking Action - Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations: (PECR)
Taking Action - Freedom of Information and Environmental Information:
Our International Work
What Next?
Please now go to the following IS Know How What Is The Data Protection Act? page and read through the ICO's information that we've collated for this and your benefit.
You may also be interested to read the statistics that IS Know How have extrapolated from the ICO's Quarterly based Data Security Incident Trends and specifically for 'Charitable & Voluntary' that they provide for "Data security incidents (breaches of the seventh data protection principle and personal data breaches reported under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations)"