Reprimands · Local government
City of Edinburgh Council
No fineReprimands
Root cause
Failure on individual rights
Subject access requests ignored or answered late, or people prevented from exercising their data rights.
What happened
A reprimand was issued to City of Edinburgh Council as during the period between 01 January 2023 to 31 December 2023, it had failed to respond to 40% of Subject Access Requests within the statutory timeframe of one calendar month, thereby infringing Articles 12(3), 15(1) and 15(3) of the UK GDPR.
Summarised from the notice published by the ICO on 3 February 2025. Read the original notice — it is the authoritative version.