UK data privacy watchdog sets out Three year plan to deal with “increasing demand and shrinking resources”. The Information Commissioner’s Office is considering whether to prioritize Freedom of Information Act requests filed by media organizations amid concerns the government has been undermining transparency. UK data privacy watchdog sets out three-year plan to deal with “increasing demand and shrinking resources”. The Information Commissioner’s Office is considering whether to prioritize Freedom of Information Act requests filed by media organizations amid concerns the government has been undermining transparency. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) will today set out a three-year plan for how it will uphold data protection laws amid “increasing demand and shrinking resources”.

Some of this will be allowed under the new UK data protection regime, allowing the ICO to focus on the incidents that cause the most damage, such as nuisance calls defrauding older victims with bogus insurance sales. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is today to set out a Three year plan for how it will uphold data protection laws amid “increasing demand and shrinking resources”. Among the watchdog’s priority issues will be analyzing the impact of these predatory marketing calls, along with the use of algorithms within the Department of Work and Pensions’ benefits system to profile potential fraud, and the use of artificial intelligence in recruitment. that could negatively affect ethnic groups.

Crucially, amid an energy-driven cost-of-living crisis, with the rate of inflation at its highest point in 40 years, the ICO aims to save businesses at least £100m through a variety of measures, including providing as much compliance training and assistance as possible. can from the center, instead of forcing companies to pay for it themselves. Speaking to Three year plan of his speech, Information Commissioner John Edwards acknowledged that businesses are under pressure: “Any cost that is not productive is a deadweight loss for them in a really tight environment. “If a consultant says to a small business, ‘Look, you have to send a data protection officer to a training course and it costs £300…’ you know, if I can say that we put all our training online for free , we’re spending once in the middle, so 10,000 of those £300 businesses don’t have to, that’s going to save a massive amount.”