UK data watchdog having a hard time making GDPR fines stick
British Airways expects the fine for its 2018 credit card data leak to be just 10.8 per cent of the £183m proposed by the UK data watchdog – while US hotel chain Marriott has both halved and kicked its own data blunder punishment into the long grass once again.
Mishcon’s Baines pondered whether the amount of ICO effort devoted to the two cases had disrupted its other data protection enforcement work: “One wonders if the effect of the BA and Marriott investigations has also been to cause work on other enforcement action to be paused, or at least delayed,” he mused, referring to boasts from Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham last year that she was about to announce more big GDPR fines.
