Reprimands · Central government
Ministry of Defence
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
The MoD has been issued with a reprimand following an identified SAR backlog dating back to March 2020. Despite setting up a recovery plan, this backlog has continued to grow, and currently stands at 9,000 SAR requests yet to be responded to. This has meant that, on average, people were typically waiting over 12 months for their information.
Summarised from the notice published by the ICO on 27 July 2022. Read the original notice — it is the authoritative version.