ICO (UK)

The Information Commissioner’s Office (Information Commissioner’s Office) is the national Data Protection Authority for United Kingdom. The ICO is in charge of enforcing the GDPR in the United Kingdom. The requirement to have a data protection authority stems from Paragraph 114 of Part 5 of the Data Protection Act 2018, which is the national act implementing the GDPR in the UK. The ICO's head office is in Wilmslow, with it also having offices in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The ICO is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport.