ICO Publishes 2024 - 2025 Annual Report

On July 16 2025, the ICO published its annual report and financial statements for the period from April 1 2024 to March 31 2025 (the Report).

The Report sets out the ICO's operations undertaken in the 2024 - 25 financial year, as well as Parliamentary accountability reports and its financial statements. The Report summarises three key "causes" that it has focused on in the 2025-25 financial year:

1. Children's privacy: The Report states that the ICO's work is currently focused on how social media and video sharing platforms use children's data, securing a raft of changes from platforms to ensure high privacy by default, that geolocation data is not used in ways that might put children at risk and that children are not targeted with personalised adverts. The ICO will continue to prioritise interventions to enforce the Children's Code;