ICO fines and enforcement action ‘significant and novel extension’ of regulatory powers: Eldon and Leave EU
Eldon Insurance and Leave EU fines totalling £105,000 and a data audit against the broker levelled by the Information Commissioner’s Office are “divorced from reality,” a tribunal heard yesterday.
At the second of three appeal hearing days, representatives from the ICO, Eldon and Leave EU clashed over the regulator’s use of enforcement against the Arron Banks’ owned broker and political
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