The Ministry of Justice has today published its response to the consultation on setting a maximum penalty of £500,000 for serious data protection breaches.
The response indicates that the majority of respondents supported the Government's proposal. As such, new regulations have today been laid before Parliament to implement the proposal and if approved, will come into force on 6 April 2010.
The Information Commissioner has previously produced draft guidance setting out how he would exercise powers to impose a penalty of up to £500,000 for serious data protection offences. For further details and to view our previous article, please click on or copy and paste the following link:
http://www.law-now.com/law-now/2009/dpanov09.htm (www.law-now.com/law-now/2009/dpanov09.htm)
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The original publication date for this article was 12/01/2010.
