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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Police Scotland has been fined £66,000 after officers extracted the entire contents of a person’s mobile phone who had reported an ...

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Subheading Police Scotland says it has taken 'organisational learning from this incident' ICO fines Police Scotland £66,000 after multiple mistakes handling data from a crime victim’s mobile phone.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) implemented in May 2018 stands as a landmark regulatory framework aimed at protecting personal data and privacy for individuals within the European Union ...

Debates around protecting personal data, including biometrics, have intensified, as public and private entities increasingly deploy biometric technologies in contexts like policing, public spaces and ...

The EU general data protection regulation (GDPR) is the strongest privacy and security law in the world. This regulation updated and modernised the principles of the 1995 data protection directive. It ...