The ICO has fined Police Scotland after it shared the entire contents of a victim’s phone with her alleged attacker ...

The information watchdog said it was a 'stark example of the devastating consequences of poor data protection practices' ...

Blue-on-blue internal investigation lands force £66k fine The UK's data protection watchdog has fined Police Scotland £66,000 ($88,000) for what it calls a "serious failure" in handling an alleged ...

Force extracted and shared the entire contents of a crime complainant’s phone in a way that “exposed them to further risk and ...

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a £66,000 fine and a reprimand to Police Scotland following a series of data protection failures that resulted in the excessive collection, ...

Police Scotland fined £66,000 by ICO for serious data breach after unlawfully disclosing sensitive personal data from a mobile phone ...

ICO fines Police Scotland £66,000 after multiple mistakes handling data from a crime victim’s mobile phone. The UK's data ...

Police Scotland has “uploaded significant volumes of images” to its cloud-based digital evidence-sharing system despite major ongoing data protection concerns, finds formal information notice from the ...

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The Scottish biometrics commissioner has served Police Scotland with an information notice, requiring the force to demonstrate that its deployment of a cloud-based digital evidence system complies ...