‘Those with long memories will remember the two reports published under the tenure of Richard Thomas, the then Information Commissioner, “What price privacy?” in May 2006 and “What price privacy now?” in December 2006. The Commissioner had a particularly keen interest in halting the trade in unlawfully obtained personal data, regarding it as a high watermark of privacy invasion. Criminal prosecutions followed (see in particular the case of R v Daniel Summers and others in 2012 here), albeit not always brought by the Information Commissioner’s Office (“the ICO”) and not always successfully.’
25 Bedford Row, 16th April 2025
Source: www.25bedfordrow.com
