Steve Wood, deputy commissioner at the ICO, said: "We welcome HMRC's prompt action to begin deleting personal data that it obtained unlawfully.

The HMRC has been handed an enforcement notice by the UK’s privacy watchdog after contravening the GDPR over collection of biometric data from taxpayers. In the first case of its kind since the ...

The ICO issued a preliminary enforcement notice to HMRC on 4 April 2019, stating the information commissioner’s initial decision to compel the department to delete all biometric data held under ...

HMRC has been told by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) that it was not adhering to the data protection rules. In effect, it had automatically pushed people into the system without ...

The 17 serious breaches reported to the ICO by HMRC surpasses the 11 that were declared, and analysed by Griffin Law, last year. According to HMRC, in incidents listed in the Annual Report, customer ...

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has reported 11 “serious” personal data incidents to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the most recent financial year, according to official figures. As ...

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) referred itself to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on 11 separate occasions between April 2019 and April 2020 over data security incidents.

Speaking at a conference on the surveillance society, David Smith, deputy commissioner at the ICO, described the HMRC breach as a watershed and called on organisations to implement new safeguards ...

Amount of tax going unpaid increases as small businesses fail to pay. Critics claim the real figures are even greater ...

Tax experts fear those who cannot use emails or apps could miss out on communications if the majority of letters are wiped out ...

The voice records of five million taxpayers are being deleted by the UK's tax authority, as the way they were collected broke privacy rules. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) failed to gain explicit ...