This sadly shows ongoing departure from "strong enforcement" promised by #GDPR. Just 2 #dataprotection fines (cf +200 in #Germany & #Spain), no enforcement notices & only 9 reprimands (a ↓70% on 23-24). Complaints response in 90 day time ↓ from 84.8→30%

In 2023 John Edwards stated that it was "necessary" for.@iconews "to apply the full sanctions" where UK #GDPR breaches "put people's lives at risk" But no regulatory action (DPA2018, s 160) for #databreach that placed +18K at risk & perhaps caused death.

RT @jonbainesdata: I’ve written up my thoughts for the @Mishcon_de_Reya website, on the baffling decision by @ICOnews to take no action in….

RT @jonbainesdata: Today we heard about the most catastrophic data breach in UK history. And the ICO’s response? No need for any action. N….

RT @JakubKrupa: Absolutely astonishing response from the regulator claiming that a data breach that made the government seek superinjunctio….

A further shocking update to this obviously culpable and gravely serious public sector breach of UK #GDPR which has led to no formal regulatory action (or even a Reprimand) on the part of @ICOnews:

RT @JakubKrupa: The most frustrating thing about the Afghan leak is that the MOD suffered a data breach on Afghan data in 2021. Emails of….

#Afghan #databreach serious violation of #GPDR, put +18K people associated with UK at grave risk of harm, has already cost many hundreds of millions of pounds & yet again has led to no @iconews regulatory action despite promise of "strong enforcement"

#Afghan #databreach put +18K people associated with the UK at serious risk of harm, has already cost the taxpayer many hundreds of millions of pounds & yet again has led to no regulatory action being taken by @iconews despite UK #GDPR "strong enforcement"!

RT @maybulman: Afghans are contacting me in a panic after receiving an email from the MoD today saying their personal data may have been co….

RT @Independent: REVEALED | More than 16,000 Afghans were secretly brought to the UK in largest covert peacetime evacuation after MoD put t….

RT @amnesty: The EU’s refusal to suspend its agreement with Israel is a cruel and unlawful betrayal – of the European project and vision, p….

Mass support for 2023 #Gabon coup leader shown again by landslide election victory in 2025 raises the question again of why #Gabon joined #Commonwealth in 2022 in highly secretive process despite such grave democratic problems (see

These concerning trends should be taken into full account when @EU_Commission, @EU_EDPB and @EU_EDPS review the UK's data #adequacy status later this year.

Despite provision that complaints should be handled "with all due diligence" (C-311/18 Schrems) & that should be some response within 90 days, the % of complaints not responded to even within this timeframe sky-rocketed from around 15% in 2023-24 to 70% in 2024-25.

The number of (unclosed) #databreach reports older than 1 year has similar ballooned from 0% in 23-24 to 25.3% in 24-25 and the number of investigations completed ↓ by ≈ 70% (from 418 to just 123)

The #databreach table shows a 36%↑ over 2 years in number of reports which remain unclosed (caseload) & % resulting in investigation is ↓ from only 6% in 23-24 to a mere 3% in 24-25. (The table also has years error: 21/22, 22/23 & 23/24 should read 22/23, 23/24 & 24/25).

RT @UKinJerusalem: We condemn the killing of two Palestinians, Seif Mossallat and Mohammed Shalahi, by extremist settlers in Sinjil. This t….

Broader background and information on the relationship between #dataprotection freedom of expression in each EEA country (as well as the #UK and #Switzerland) is available on @cambridgelaw .@UCamCIPIL website:

Pleased to post open access analysis of #GDPR as applicable to #journalism under the #GDPR for all #EU and wider #EEA jurisdictions (as well #UK): It's based on my OUP book from late 2019 but pattern of strict South & East & liberal North remains true.