In this episode of InfoSec Insider – Talk DP, Stuart Skelly, a Senior GRC Consultant at URM, provides a break down and analysis of the enforcement actions delivered since the beginning of 2023 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s privacy regulator, to highlight emerging trends and lessons that can be learned from how the ICO enforces data protection legislation such as the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR).  Stuart leverages his 25+ years of specialisation in data protection law to discuss: 

• The differences between the enforcement actions that are available to the ICO, i.e., Enforcement Notices, Reprimands, and Monetary Penalties 

• The ICO’s enforcement activities in 2023 – the amount of fines compared to reprimands, and the sums of money involved 

• The ICO’s enforcement activities in the first half of 2024 and how they compare to the same period in 2023 

• Trends that can be observed in the ICO’s enforcement activities and the ICO’s approach to issuing fines vs. reprimands  

• How the ICO’s use of monetary penalties compares to its European counterparts.  

Learn more about this topic: https://www.urmconsulting.com/blog/analysis-of-fines-imposed-by-the-information-commissioners-office-in-2023   

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