Suzanne Smalley reports:
More than 70 civil liberties advocacy groups, academics and legal experts are calling for an investigation into a “collapse in enforcement activity” by the United Kingdom’s principal data protection regulator.
The group’s letter to Chi Onwurah, who chairs Parliament’s Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, contends that the Information Commissioner’s Office is plagued by deep “structural failures.”
It also alleges that a lack of enforcement actions by the ICO, particularly against public sector agencies, has led to an 11% increase in reported breaches and an 8% increase in data protection complaints.
The group’s call for an inquiry from the technology committee focuses on the regulator’s failure to investigate the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for the 2022 leak of data belonging to Afghans who had worked for the British government.
Read more at The Record.