The HMRC has now been ordered to delete any data it holds on taxpayers which was obtained without their consent. Although the scale of the infringement was great — with over seven million voice ...

HMRC has written to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and said it will now only keep Voice ID enrolments where it holds explicit consent.

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) referred itself to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on 11 separate occasions between April 2019 and April 2020 over data security incidents.

The ICO issued a preliminary enforcement notice to HMRC on 4 April 2019, stating the information commissioner’s initial decision to compel the department to delete all biometric data held under ...

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has reported 11 “serious” personal data incidents to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the most recent financial year, according to official figures. As ...

In October 2018, HMRC changed the way it sought permission to collect voice IDs. And if you have called the tax hotline since then any voiceprint collected will not be included amongst those now being ...

Millions is still being refunded to people by HMRC in overpaid pension tax, as experts call for reform to the system. New ...

That voice data should be deleted. Fingers crossed that the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) which has been investigating Big Brother Watch’s complaint since mid-2018 agrees, and orders HMRC to ...

The current maximum penalty for breaking data laws is a £5,000 fine. In the aftermath of the HMRC fiasco, the government promised the ICO greater powers of inspection.

In the case of HMRC, the ICO found it had failed to give customers sufficient information about how their biometric data would be processed, and failed to give them the chance to give or withhold ...

For instance, in January of this year, HMRC reported a staggering 3,995 phone scams, while the ICO only reported 5,645 nuisance calls and texts from all sources in the same month.

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