ICO - April 2025.
IThe Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has recently intensified its efforts to protect personal data and enforce compliance across various sectors. In April 2025, the ICO published a report scrutinising how financial services collect and use children's data, focusing on products like savings accounts and prepaid cards. Earlier, in January, the ICO launched a strategy targeting cookie compliance among the UK's top 1,000 websites, aiming to ensure users have meaningful control over their online data. Additionally, the ICO has taken action against public authorities for failing to meet Freedom of Information obligations, including issuing enforcement notices to Sussex Police and South Yorkshire Police for significant backlogs in responding to information requests.
