Digital services will be forced to strengthen their privacy settings for users under the age of 18 under the Information Commissioner’s Office’s (ICO) Age Appropriate Design Code, which sets out new ...

The ICO has published its data protection code of practice (.pdf), which aims to help businesses and consumers understand individual privacy legislation. When more and more data is being placed in the ...

Senior vice president of Merkle's Data Solution in EMEA, Nick McCarthy (pictured below) writes exclusively for ExchangeWire about why businesses should not hesitate to embrace the newest version of ...

The Age Appropriate Design Code encapsulates a new code of conduct for digital services to adhere to in the wake of a series of high-profile incidents, notably the suicide of 14-year-old Molly Russell ...

Elle Todd, a partner at Reed Smith, explains the new draft journalism code of practice from the Information Commissioner’s Office and the questions it leaves unanswered. Following a long wait, the ...

The final version of the ICO's Age Appropriate Design Code was published earlier this year. It needs to be approved by Parliament, and there will then be a 12 month period before it comes into force.

The UK’s data protection watchdog has hit out at several newspaper editors for misrepresenting the nature of a draft code of practice for journalists. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is ...

The UK’s data protection watchdog has today published a set of design standards for internet services which are intended to help protect the privacy and safety of children online. The Information ...

The Information Commissioner's Office has launched a code of practice designed to enable organisations to share information across the public and private sectors. The UK privacy authority said on ...