If you are living in UK then you don’t need to worry anymore about your Data Protection.
As the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is allowing to issue fines of up to £500,000 for serious data security breaches under a law that has been approved by the Secretary of State for Justice.
This new rule will come into force in UK on 6 April 2010. The commission will levy a fine after an investigation to charge the importance of the breach, the size and the finances of the organization involved in it. The commission will also decide if the breach was accidental or deliberate. Even it will consider that how much distress the information leak caused.
In recent years, the high profile data losses have been from large public organizations which includes the Ministry of Defense and the DVLA that is Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency.
This step will definitely encourage companies to observe more closely regarding their Data Protection Act. The original Data Protection Act came into force in 1984, but became more important as personal data storage turned popular. As many people thought that the law lacked teeth for Data Protection as few people had ever been prosecuted, their thoughts will sediment now.
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