None

Financial penalty

Reprimand, no fine

9 August 2023

Date on the register

UK GDPR

Law relied on

UK GDPR Article 5(1)(f), UK GDPR Article 32(1)(b)

General business

Sector

20 actions on the register

In one line

The ICO issued Recruitment company reprimand with a reprimand on 9 August 2023 under the UK General Data Protection Regulation. No financial penalty attaches to it.

01The record

Organisation named: Recruitment company reprimand
Action: Reprimand
Date published: 9 August 2023
Register year: 2023
Law relied on: UK GDPR
Provisions cited: UK GDPR Article 5(1)(f), UK GDPR Article 32(1)(b)
Penalty: None (not a financial penalty)
Sector on the register: General business
ICO register reference: 17293
Register status: Published on the ICO enforcement register, 4 September 2026
Notice documents: 1 PDF published by the ICO
Sector share of register: 20 of 216 actions (9%)
Actions published that year: 80
Actions under this law: 95
Position on the register: 69th of 216, oldest first
Published the same day: This entry alone

02What happened, and where it sits

Recruitment company reprimand received an ICO reprimand on 9 August 2023. The Commissioner acted under the UK General Data Protection Regulation, citing UK GDPR Article 5(1)(f) and UK GDPR Article 32(1)(b). A formal criticism on the public record. A reprimand carries no fine and no order, but it is published and the ICO expects the shortcomings named in it to be fixed.

No sum is attached to this action. Reprimands are corrective, not financial, which is why Recruitment company reprimand appears on the register without a figure beside it.

Recruitment company reprimand is filed under General business, which accounts for 20 of the 216 actions on the register (9%). In 2023 the ICO published 80 enforcement actions in total, 37 of them reprimands. 95 actions on the register name UK GDPR.

Counted from the oldest entry forward, this is the 69th of 216 actions on the register and the 3rd of 20 in General business. The ICO publishes one document for this action, 125 KB in total: "20230809 Ico Recruitment Reprimand". It is the authority for everything on this page.

03The ICO's own account

The Information Commissioner (the Commissioner) issues a reprimand to a recruitment company in respect of infringements of Article 5(1)(f) and 32(1)(b) of the UK GDPR. The organisation misconfigured a storage container, containing 12,000 records and relating to 3,000 workers, to be publicly accessible without any requirement to authenticate.

Quoted from the ICO's published register entry (ico.org.uk), Open Government Licence v3.0.

The law behind this action

UK GDPR

The UK GDPR is the data protection regime the ICO enforces against controllers and processors. Its upper tier is capped at £17.5 million or 4% of total worldwide annual turnover, whichever is higher.

All 95 register actions under UK GDPR

What a reprimand does

A formal criticism on the public record. A reprimand carries no fine and no order, but it is published and the ICO expects the shortcomings named in it to be fixed.

Published notice

PDF20230809 Ico Recruitment Reprimand(125 KB)

04Nearest entries on the register

Closest by sector, law and date
Organisation	Date	Action	Law	Penalty	Sector
Gap Personnel Holdings Limited	19 Oct 2023	Reprimand	UK GDPR	-	General business
GRS (Roadstone) Limited	14 Nov 2023	Reprimand	UK GDPR	-	General business
Direct Clothing Co. (UK) Limited	18 Jul 2022	Reprimand	UK GDPR	-	General business
23andMe	5 Jun 2025	Monetary penalty	UK GDPR	£2,310,000	General business
Swinburne, Snowball and Jackson	12 Aug 2023	Reprimand	UK GDPR	-	Legal

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05Work out an exposure of your own

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Provenance and independence

Source: ICO enforcement register (ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/), as published on 4 September 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

GDPRFine.com is an independent tracker of ICO enforcement. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the Information Commissioner's Office, and it uses no ICO branding. Where the ICO's own wording is reproduced it is quoted and attributed; everything else on these pages is our own summary of the published record.

The ICO's register held 222 entries on that date. 6 of them are prosecutions of named individuals, with ages and home towns in the ICO's own summary. This tracker indexes organisations, so those 6 are excluded and every count on these pages is out of 216. They remain on the ICO's own register.

An entry says what the Commissioner did on the date shown. It is not a statement about the organisation today, and the ICO can amend or remove a register entry at any time. Amounts and provisions are as published by the ICO; where the published notice does not state a figure or name a provision, these pages say so rather than filling the gap. This entry was read from the register page at https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/2023/08/recruitment-company-reprimand/.