The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is a non-departmental public body which reports directly to Parliament and is sponsored by the Ministry of Justice. It is the independent regulatory office that deals with data protection laws in the UK. One of the main pieces of legislation is the Data Protection Act 1998.
The ICO has recently confirmed that after more than four years of debate agreement has been reached to reform and modernise the data protection laws. The institutions of the European Union – the Commission, the Council, and the Parliament – have agreed the new rules that will be…
