Blue-on-blue internal investigation lands force £66k fine The UK's data protection watchdog has fined Police Scotland £66,000 ($88,000) for what it calls a "serious failure" in handling an alleged ...

The ICO has fined Police Scotland after it shared the entire contents of a victim’s phone with her alleged attacker ...

The information watchdog said it was a 'stark example of the devastating consequences of poor data protection practices' ...

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a £66,000 fine and a reprimand to Police Scotland following a series of data protection failures that resulted in the excessive collection, ...

Police Scotland has been fined £66,000 for extracting the entire contents of a person's mobile phone after they reported an ...

ICO fines Police Scotland £66,000 after multiple mistakes handling data from a crime victim’s mobile phone. The UK's data protection regulator has fined Police Scotland £66,000 after an investigation ...

The force was found to have breached data protection laws after extracting the contents of a person’s mobile phone.

Officers didn't ensure there were sufficient safeguards to prevent access to irrelevant personal information.

Police Scotland has “uploaded significant volumes of images” to its cloud-based digital evidence-sharing system despite major ongoing data protection concerns, finds formal information notice from the ...

Police Scotland chose not to consult the data regulator before deploying its cloud-based digital evidence-sharing system, despite identifying a number of “high risks” with the data processing, freedom ...

In one of Scotland’s first court cases on the legality of covert monitoring of employees in the workplace, the pursuer, a leading firm of immigration law advisors, conducted extensive surveillance to ...