Analysis: Data protection is one area where ignorance can serve as a defence. “One of the problems we have got as a community is that if you don’t fine people then they don’t do stuff.”
Martin Sugden, chief executive of security firm Boldon James, takes a dim view of his industry. A veteran of the security industry, he believes the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has been lax in punishing those who flout the data protection rules and are failing to deter bad behaviour.