Precedent corpus / ICO (United Kingdom)
Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland
ICO (United Kingdom) case psni-2024-10, decided 2024-10-04. EUR 870,000.
What the regulator decided
A spreadsheet released as part of a freedom-of-information response contained a hidden tab disclosing the surnames, initials, ranks and roles of all 9,483 PSNI officers and staff to the public internet; the controller had not implemented appropriate technical and organisational measures to identify the hidden data before release, breaching Articles 5(1)(f), 32(1) and 32(2) UK GDPR.
Primary source
Regulator-owned URL. Quote this in legal briefs and academic citations.
https://ico.org.uk/media2/migrated/4031177/psni-penalty-notice.pdfArchived snapshot
Wayback Machine snapshot of the primary source. Use this when the regulator URL might be refactored or expire.
https://web.archive.org/web/20260105045413/https://ico.org.uk/media2/migrated/4031177/psni-penalty-notice.pdfConsentMark interpretation
Operator-readable note on how this case shapes the ConsentMark scanner narrative. Not a legal opinion; cites the primary source.
EUR amount approximate (round-trip from GBP 750k at the enforcement-date FX rate). The ICO public-sector approach reduced the indicative fine from GBP 5.6M to GBP 750k. Cite when the scanner narrative covers an inadvertent-disclosure-via-publication pattern - the hidden-tab issue is the data-protection equivalent of a spreadsheet-row-level-access misconfiguration.
Verification trail
- Verified by
- donal
- Verified at
- 2026-05-27
- Review due
- 2026-11-27
Cite this case
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author = {{ConsentMark}},
year = {2024},
title = {ICO (United Kingdom) psni-2024-10 - Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland},
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note = {ConsentMark methodology v1.3}
}ConsentMark. (2024, October 4). ICO (United Kingdom) psni-2024-10 - Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. Methodology v1.3. https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/ico-psni-2024-10[ICO (United Kingdom) psni-2024-10 - Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland - ConsentMark](https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/ico-psni-2024-10)ICO (United Kingdom) psni-2024-10 - Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland - ConsentMark, 2024-10-04, methodology v1.3, https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/ico-psni-2024-10