After a plea last week at the launch of its report, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is to receive more funding.
This will be given so it can monitor the implications of the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act (Drip) law. According to BBC news, the monitoring will require communications companies to store customer data for 12 months and Information Commissioner Christopher Graham would receive money to cover “extra duties imposed on him by the regulations”, said the Home Office.
The exact figure the ICO would receive has not been set in stone, but it is understood to be hundreds of thousands of pounds.
