The day of data reckoning has arrived for UK businesses.
From Contractor UK:
Organisations that recklessly or deliberately commit breaches under the Data Protection Act can now be fined by Britain’s privacy watchdog.
Under the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act, the Information Commissioner’s Office has the right to financially punish any outfit found in serious breach of the 1998 law.
The tougher sanctions in the act, which won royal assent on Friday, are seen as the first step to repairing the public’s
dwindling confidence in how their data is handled.They also send the strongest signal yet to organisations that a “cavalier†approach to customers’ data security is “completely unacceptable†and that it must become a priority.
It all fairness it should have always been a priority. But, better late rather than never.
