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UK care-home data requester obtains records after criminal case

By Patricia Figueiredo ( September 5, 2025, 11:35 GMT | Insight) -- The individual whose Subject Access Request was blocked by a UK care home has now received the requested data, following the care-home director's conviction under Section 173 of the Data Protection Act 2018, the Information Commissioner's Office has confirmed. At a court hearing, the director Jason Blake argued that he wasn’t responsible for the request, that his institution wasn’t a data controller, and that it had deregistered from the ICO. The court dismissed those claims and fined Blake, after deciding he had concealed records to prevent disclosure. The ICO said the case is a reminder that companies “must handle SARs lawfully and responsibly.”UK data protection law led to a criminal conviction this week after a care-home director was found guilty of obstructing a subject access request, the UK privacy regulator has confirmed. The individual who made the request has now received the information, following a prosecution brought under the Data Protection Act 2018, the UK’s privacy regulator has said. ...

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