Google And The Information Commissioner's Office

EDM number 361 in 2012-13, proposed by Robert Halfon on 09/07/2012.
Categorised under the topic of Non-departmental public bodies.

That this House notes that the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has now admitted that one of its former privacy managers, who reportedly worked on its Google StreetView investigation, is now employed by Google as a senior executive; concludes that this revolving-door policy raises serious questions about the ICO, and whether it is fit for purpose, as there is already evidence that it was incredibly slow to act on this breach of the Data Protection Act 1998 and only did so following pressure from Parliament and the media; and therefore urges the Government to consider whether the public can continue to have confidence in the ICO.

This motion has been signed by a total of 5 MPs.