Information Commissioner's Office - Data Protection Fee

[Lancs Jag Boy]

I have a tiny limited company, employing only my wife. We've got three customers. It's a tiny sub-income pin money business.

I received a demand from the ico.org.uk today telling me I needed to pay annual fee of £40-60 for processing personal information.

Is this really a thing? I only send invoices to three companies and two are non UK.

Does anyone else have experience of this?

[bigandclever]

Given what you've said, go through the workflow and you'll almost certainly find you don't have to do, or pay, anything.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/data-protecti...

[Burrow01]

Hi


Are you B2B or B2C?

If you are not holding any personal information within the business, you do not need to pay it

[Lancs Jag Boy]

B2B only. Thanks for the feedback.

[TonyRPH]

We've also had this - and we need to pay, because we have CCTV on the premises (and yet we are only a block of flats with CCTV for security).

It all seems a bit overkill to me.

[Simpo Two]

I like the way you have to pay a fee to somebody else for something you do yourself

It's like being charged by the Turd Commissioner for doing a turd.

[robscot]

Cheeky rev raiser for ICO.... 4,000,000 + companies in UK get the letter x £40-60 !

In my experience the ICO do naff all on legit complaints anyway, a pointless organisation.

[Simpo Two]

robscot said:

Cheeky rev raiser for ICO.... 4,000,000 + companies in UK get the letter x £40-60 !

In my experience the ICO do naff all on legit complaints anyway, a pointless organisation.

Let me guess - if you don't pay, do they suddenly put their tea and biscuits down and get very active prosecuting the culprit?

[JapanRed]

I’d like to know a bit more about this as I’ve been asked to pay it for my 2 companies. One I filled the online form in saying I didn’t need to and haven’t heard anything since (this was 6 months ago). Had a letter this week for second company which I will have to pay.

What exactly am I paying for? What do the ICO do?

[bigandclever]

JapanRed said:

What do the ICO do?

Christ knows. I wonder if they have a website or something?

[JapanRed]

bigandclever said:

JapanRed said:

What do the ICO do?

Christ knows. I wonder if they have a website or something?

I meant what do the ICO do for me for paying the £40.

[bigandclever]

JapanRed said:

bigandclever said:

JapanRed said:

What do the ICO do?

Christ knows. I wonder if they have a website or something?

I meant what do the ICO do for me for paying the £40.

The data protection fee makes up something like 90% of the funding they get. What they do with that funding is on their website.

Whether it’s worth it is an entirely different discussion