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The ICO can impose penalties of up to £500,000 for companies that allow data protection breaches.
Since 2010 the ICO has had the power to impose fines for data protection breaches, which last year totalled £688,000.
For the record, the Sunday Times yesterday listed the information commissioner's 2006 list of data protection breaches by private eye Steve Whitamore.
Cyber fraud and extortion are increasingly common; there's also the issue of possible data protection breaches and the reputational risk to deal with if there's a social media crisis.
He said his greatest concern was the inability by police to prove that other journalists in Scotland were guilty of hacking and data protection breaches, which had happened on "an industrial scale".
He explained that he was "unwilling to disclose confidential information" that might be seen by one of Ipso's board members, William Newman, because - during his tenure as ombudsman of the Sun - "there were industrial scale data protection breaches [by the paper] which have never been investigated".
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There was no data protection breach".
Subject: The loss of two CDs containing 25 million personal records, Britain's worst data protection breach.
Three Guardian Australia journalists took home the Print/Online award at the inaugural Amnesty International Australia Media Awards, for an exclusive investigation which uncovered a serious data protection breach by the Australian immigration department.
"Facebook's answer, that this has merely not been done for the time being, is cause for concern that the gravity of the data protection breach" will have a more severe impact, Mr. Caspar said.
Although many organisations are using digital and online technologies as a more cost-efficient way of providing services, fewer than a third (30%) of public sector leaders describe their ability to deal with major incident relating to a cyber security or data protection breach as "good".
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