UK's info commish is having a howler: Site dies amid 'plagiarised' GDPR book scandal There have been better weeks for The Information Commissioner's Office, which has faced ridicule thanks to ongoing website woes and accusations of dodgy book endorsements. The UK data protection watchdog's site – which offers regulatory and compliance advice and acts as a portal for reporting breaches – has been down since …
The ICO's website outage means that it's not possible to report yet another scam or nuisance phone cal, even if you think that reporting a spoofed or withheld number will achieve anything and you can be bothered to spend a fair bit of time so doing.
If the ICO, DCMS, Ofcom etc were any good they'd have mandated long ago that all telcos provide 1477 free of charge by default: Automatic Call Trace stores the REAL number at your local exchange for subsequent investigation and prosecution. But that would be too easy, wouldn't it?
>stores the REAL number at your local exchange for subsequent investigation and prosecution
Banning international calls or intending ICO to have global reach ?
Of course since calls can also route over satelites we really need the ICO to have some sort of forceful presence not just globally but in space - a space force ......
A toothless and clueless regulator is the best outcome for all concerned parties besides the public, whose opinion doesn't matter.
FTFY. If our legislators/agencies were properly doing their jobs, either these agencies would have a clue and teeth or be quickly sent to oblivion. It would safe a pile of money and possibly reduce paperwork and headaches for everyone. An alternative would be to legislate such that these agencies could actually regulate effectively but that's just a dream.
What's really sad is these regulators/agencies are in all countries. The amount of empolyees they have probably will reduce unemployment benefit costs so it's a form of state welfare.
In a bid to address the concerns, the ICO said it was now "developing a corporate policy on how requests for support and collaboration from third parties will be dealt with in the future".
With the amount of bureaucracy in the ICO you would have thought someone there would have loved to add another policy to it.
Surely it can't be the first time they've been asked to collaborate on things such as this. Unless of course it's the first time they've gotten caught rubber stamping something.
Not just the UK sadly. Its like Bankster lite-touch regulation all over again:
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https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/privacy-rights-it-s-natural-facebook-would-choose-ireland-1.3400531
https://qz.com/162791/how-a-bureaucrat-in-a-struggling-country-at-the-edge-of-europe-found-himself-safeguarding-the-worlds-data/
https://qz.com/993995/how-facebooks-fb-sheryl-sandberg-personally-lobbied-irish-prime-minister-enda-kenny-as-shown-by-2014-emails-published-in-the-irish-independent/
One could easily argue that penning a foreword to a book and describing it as "authoritative" when you"he not even read it, means that you have accepted money for misrepresenting the tiny amount of work you actually did and that you opine on things without having any information on them. Not acceptable behaviour for someone paid a huge salary for being the nation's chief overseer of information.
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