Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government is taking to improve consumer awareness of (a) the privacy, security and fraud implications of sharing personal data online and (b) how people can mitigate such risks.
The Information Commissioner's Office is responsible for producing guidance for the general public, private and public sector organisations on information rights; this includes informing individuals’ about their right to privacy, security measures data controllers should have in place and the implications of sharing personal data. This guidance and how to mitigate the risks associated with sharing data can be found on its’ website at; www.ico.org.uk.
The Government is investing £1.9 billion to protect the nation in cyber space. The Cyber Aware campaign aims to drive behaviour change amongst small businesses and individuals so they adopt simple secure online behaviours to help protect themselves from fraud.