Future Of British Business
UK’s Data Regulator Yet to Enforce Single Child Protection Case
- Digital rights groups call for dissuasive public enforcement
- ICO is ‘looking at’ more than 50 companies over breaches
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The UK’s data protection watchdog is yet to take action against any company for breaching rules designed to protect children from predatory data harvesting practices, two years after they were introduced.
The failure to make an example of companies violating the rules is indicative of the regulator’s shift to be more business friendly at a cost of upholding children’s privacy rights, say digital rights groups.