The group’s letter to Chi Onwurah, who chairs Parliament’s Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, contends that the Information Commissioner’s Office is plagued by deep “structural failures.”
It also alleges that a lack of enforcement actions by the ICO, particularly against public sector agencies, has led to an 11% increase in reported breaches and an 8% increase in data protection complaints.
This comes after a particularly devastating data breach that involved the outing of Afghan translators that worked with the British military. It turns out that the ICO is just simply not doing their jobs or even executing punishments/fines.