In an attempt to balance public- and private-sector fines for data breaches, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) says it will begin aggregating complaints about private-sector organisations, ZDNet reports. Information Commissioner Christopher Graham said, "The next phase for us is to make more sophisticated use of all the information we get in from consumer complaints" and to analyse it with the purpose of spotting the "serial offenders, which would build the case for action on more occasions in the private sector." Graham added that for private companies "it's a much bigger deal" than it is for public-sector entities "because they lose consumer confidence--there's a real hit to the bottom line." Meanwhile, the ICO is investigating an incident potentially affecting 51 individuals.
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