ICO have nothing but false teeth...
This is not an example of the ICO having teeth. This is just one Government organisation voluntarily notifying the ICO, while attempting to comply with GDPR.
What exactly has the ICO stated its 'teeth' are going to do to the HMRC exactly if they don't comply?
Absolutely nothing, because the ICO has no fucking teeth.
My experience of the ICO and all these regulatory quangos if they fob you off saying that's a problem for <insert your Government regulatory quango>, not us, when it's clearly their problem but don't want to get involved. Their online chat is a complete waste of time, effort and space.
Theses orgs are just a merry-go-round of headbanging, where nothing actually gets done. They're utterly defensive against any criticism too. Their own image has become more important than the actual role they're supposed to do.
The lack of attention to detail by these organisations is woeful, as an example, look at Ofcom, in their broadband suppliers annual complaints survey, they describe one supplier as 'Sky'.
There is no supplier called 'Sky', there is either "Sky Broadband" or "Now(TV) Broadband" ("Sister companies" both part of parent company Sky plc). That's why these companies run rings around the regulators, the regulator has absolutely no clue at that level of detail, and no, you can't migrate from Now(Tv) Broadband to Sky Broadband (and vice versa) fully online (to take advantage of new customer discounts, even though you've never been a customer), because the underlying clunky legacy Openreach job ticketing systems regulated by Ofcom, see "Sky Broadband" and NowTV Broadband as fucking "Sky", and you're back to square one.
Who regulates the regulators?
None of the regulators seems to test the arbitrary rules/systems they put in place. i.e. 'Secret customer style' pretending to be an external company raising a data issue with the ICO, to report how the problem was dealt with by the ICO.
Then there is Ofgem, we'd be clearly better off without this manure spreading org, utterly useless.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
