£7,500
Penalty imposed
UK GDPR
6 March 2024
Date on the register
UK GDPR
Law relied on
DPA 2018 section 155, UK GDPR Article 5(1)(f)
Charitable and voluntary
Sector
4 actions on the register
In one line
The ICO fined The Central Young Men's Christian Association £7,500 on 6 March 2024 under the UK GDPR.
01The record
- Organisation named
- The Central Young Men's Christian Association
- Action
- Monetary penalty
- Date published
- 6 March 2024
- Register year
- 2024
- Law relied on
- UK GDPR
- Provisions cited
- DPA 2018 section 155, UK GDPR Article 5(1)(f), UK GDPR Article 32(1), UK GDPR Article 83
- Penalty
- £7,500
- Sector on the register
- Charitable and voluntary
- ICO register reference
- 17357
- Register status
- Published on the ICO enforcement register, 4 September 2026
- Notice documents
- 1 PDF published by the ICO
- Sector share of register
- 4 of 216 actions (2%)
- Actions published that year
- 52
- Actions under this law
- 95
- Position on the register
- 130th of 216, oldest first
- Published the same day
- This entry alone
- Rank by penalty size
- 44th of 44 penalties with a published figure
- People affected
- 166
- Entries for this organisation
- 2 on this register
02What happened, and where it sits
The Central Young Men's Christian Association received an ICO monetary penalty on 6 March 2024. The Commissioner acted under the UK General Data Protection Regulation, citing DPA 2018 section 155, UK GDPR Article 5(1)(f), UK GDPR Article 32(1) and UK GDPR Article 83. A fine. The ICO issues a monetary penalty notice setting out the contravention and the sum payable.
The penalty is £7,500. That is the 44th largest of the 44 penalties on this register with a published figure and the 13th largest of the 13 recorded in 2024. UK GDPR penalties are capped at £17.5 million or 4% of total worldwide annual turnover, whichever is higher.
The notice puts numbers on the contravention: 166 people affected. Those figures are the ICO's, taken from the published notice for this action.
The Central Young Men's Christian Association is filed under Charitable and voluntary, which accounts for 4 of the 216 actions on the register (2%). In 2024 the ICO published 52 enforcement actions in total, 17 of them monetary penalties. 95 actions on the register name UK GDPR.
Counted from the oldest entry forward, this is the 130th of 216 actions on the register and the 3rd of 4 in Charitable and voluntary. The Central Young Men's Christian Association appears 2 times on this register: monetary penalty on 6 March 2024 and reprimand on 6 March 2024. The ICO publishes one document for this action, 842 KB in total: "Central YMCA Monetary Penalty Notice". It is the authority for everything on this page.
03The ICO's own account
The Central YMCA sent an email to individuals participating in a programme for people living with HIV using “CC” rather than “BCC”, revealing the email addresses to all recipients. 166 individuals could be identified or potentially identified from their email address. As a result, it could be inferred that these individuals were likely to be living with HIV. The Central YMCA have been fined £7,500 and issued a reprimand.
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.
What a monetary penalty does
A fine. The ICO issues a monetary penalty notice setting out the contravention and the sum payable.
Published notice
- PDFCentral YMCA Monetary Penalty Notice(842 KB)
04Other entries for The Central Young Men's Christian Association
| Organisation | Date | Action | Law | Penalty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Central Young Men's Christian Association | 6 Mar 2024 | Reprimand | UK GDPR | - |
05Nearest entries on the register
| Organisation | Date | Action | Law | Penalty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Central Young Men's Christian Association | 6 Mar 2024 | Reprimand | UK GDPR | - |
| Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment | 21 Feb 2023 | Reprimand | UK GDPR | - |
| TikTok Information Technologies UK Limited and TikTok Inc (TikTok) | 15 May 2023 | Monetary penalty | UK GDPR | £12,700,000 |
| 23andMe | 5 Jun 2025 | Monetary penalty | UK GDPR | £2,310,000 |
| Capita plc and Capita Pension Solutions Ltd | 15 Oct 2025 | Monetary penalty | UK GDPR | £14,000,000 |
All Charitable and voluntary actions/All 2024 actions/The full register
06Work out an exposure of your own
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How a fine is calculated
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The ICO profile
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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/2024/04/the-central-young-men-s-christian-association-mpn/.
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