In a recent Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) blog post, Sally-Anne Poole says statistics indicate carelessness is the cause of much of the office’s enforcement business. The ICO uses statistics to help inform its response to incidents, Poole writes. The health and local government sector leads the list for data breaches, followed by schools and solicitors. The ICO has published a spreadsheet of its civil monetary penalties for the first quarter of 2013 so the public can see such trends.
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