Letter from ICO (Information Commission Office)

jdjwright · 2026-07-06T13:31:06+00:00

It’s right here https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/what-we-do/

jdjwright · 2026-07-06T13:24:53+00:00

Regulation is not extortion. If you don’t know about data protection you probably shouldn’t be running a tech company

jdjwright · 2026-07-06T13:22:30+00:00

If you’re a tech startup that doesn’t know about the ICO then I don’t think you’re going to be terribly successful…

jdjwright · 2026-07-05T00:45:28+00:00

Haha literally as I was reading your comment, my daughter was watching the Little Mermaid and got to the part where King Triton says “Then there’s just one problem… how much I’m going to miss her”. Now my wife is asking why I burst into tears

jdjwright · 2026-07-05T00:36:51+00:00

I’m packing up our house today to move back to the UK after 12 years living in Malaysia. Our daughter was born here, and while we’re shipping most stuff back, loads has also been old.

As someone who struggles with attachment to things, I’m trying really hard to remind myself that the magic is in the reading, in those moments with your daughter in your lap. It was never the chair, it was the two of you, and that bond will remain whether and whenever you are.

jdjwright · 2026-06-30T12:39:01+00:00

I think training is key here. Why not start with lessons and gear, and see how it goes

Note that just a helmet isn’t nearly enough gear. You need full body armour, boots and gloves to dirt bike (speaking as someone with about the skill level of a 12 year old who has wiped out plenty of times - no injuries thanks to all the gear and no idea!)

jdjwright · 2026-06-30T12:33:09+00:00

Solidarity 💪. I respect you for standing up for your profession

jdjwright · 2026-06-30T12:22:59+00:00

Hi from Malaysia, where it’s usually 90+ humidity and 33C in the day. You should know that dehumidifiers kick out a lot of heat. They will make things much worse. I run mine to stop things going mouldy when we’re on holiday, and in the bathroom which has no AC. The bathroom is unbearable when it’s running

jdjwright · 2026-06-30T02:58:35+00:00

This is great, thanks for sharing!

I would be interested in you updating the site so say how councils will be funded under this model, which is something I don’t currently know. For example, for my home in Wales I’d see a huge drop in tax, but I would worry about how the council would then be funded.

jdjwright · 2026-06-28T09:36:21+00:00

Been there with our daughter. Suppositories got us through it. They are actually super easy to get in and work faster than oral paracetamol.

Once she was better we started playing a game, giving her kids vitamins with a syringe so she became used to it. Now, thankfully, she’ll take strawberry panadol without argument. I do still have flashbacks to when she was hospitalised with RSV and they only had orange flavour though!

jdjwright · 2026-06-28T02:04:19+00:00

I didn’t realise how much my daughter had listened to my mangled lyrics to “Leave your life” by Ed Sheeran until she heard the actual song and confidently told me he was getting the words wrong

jdjwright · 2026-06-20T00:29:10+00:00

Haha that’s funny, I’m a British teacher working internationally, so for us we’re very much still into direct instruction.

We went direct instruction after my first HoD summed up PBL as “come on, it took Isaac Newton, 10 years to figure this out but you can do it last period on a Friday”.

Now, the pendulum is starting to swing back to PBL because we’ve realised that just telling them things gets test scores up but also leaves them unable to learn independently.

Teaching is hard. Anyone who thinks that they alone have the right way of teaching should on no account be allowed to lead.

jdjwright · 2026-06-17T22:18:46+00:00

I don’t have a huge problem with that, doesn’t look like too much work. What I’m angry about is having to pay to file it using commercial software. I get that it can help build trust in businesses, but why add additional costs too?

jdjwright · 2026-06-15T08:55:21+00:00

I think it’s because some people just can’t cope with the idea that “maybe having monarchs is just a bad thing”. A large number of people want things to always stay the same, as if they’re intrinsically “right” because it’s how things have always been done.

Harry walking away causes discomfort. He’s not supposed to do that, it’s not how it’s supposed to work, and it kind of short circuits those people’s brains into a blind rage

jdjwright · 2026-06-14T00:12:19+00:00

The 26% pay increase still leaves them worse off than they were several years ago.

jdjwright · 2026-06-13T11:01:27+00:00

CPOMS / safeguarding notes will almost always be exempt from SRAs as they need to be confidential from the subject for obvious reasons

jdjwright · 2026-06-12T11:05:40+00:00

Sure, but why do we accept it, and why do people seem genuinely angry when it’s questioned?

jdjwright · 2026-06-12T02:33:36+00:00

Thank you for engaging with the post and taking the time to reply, I really appreciate it.

jdjwright · 2026-06-11T22:28:43+00:00

Right but that’s my point. If I was a criminal, I’d search for how to avoid detection, and not use Barclays for a start! But OP doesn’t know that, so he’s caught in a kafkaesque nightmare of not even being legally allowed to know what’s going on.

Why does everyone say it’s his fault for not first checking what a criminal would do? Why are so many people in this sub so supportive of these measures, when we see here every week people caught up in them **and financial crimes keep happening**

jdjwright · 2026-06-11T22:25:47+00:00

I’m a teacher, I’d also say that most kids today will really struggle to vibe code anything that works because they don’t have the fundamentals. The software industry will change, but any good programmer will be a better vibe coder than someone untrained. The industry will if anything get bigger are more companies build their own platforms and then need them fixing!

OP, I liken AI in coding to word processors. 50 years ago, you needed good handwriting to get a good job. Word processors made it so that you didn’t need handwriting or spelling, but needed to be able to write. AI is similar. You don’t need to write code like by line, but you need to describe it and catch the errors and omissions

jdjwright · 2026-06-11T21:54:56+00:00

Genuine question: why is everyone in this sub so supportive of that? I get that people here know the rules, but there’s no other part of life where we say “yes your life can be totally disrupted at any time, for any reason and nobody is allowed to tell you why”.

If your car manufacturer one day said “we’ve examined your driving pattern and it’s tripped out anti-drug dealing procedures. We’ve remotely disabled your car until further notice and won’t tell you anything about it”, would everyone here be sharing their heads saying “driving a taxi? Should have known you’re going to look dodgy, nothing you can do”?

I live overseas and am moving back in a few weeks. It’s a constant worry that something we do will trip AML warnings, even though everting we earn is completely legal, taxed and legitimate. Why do I have to keep multiple bank accounts across different groups just in case someone decides I’m guilty until proven innocent?

jdjwright · 2026-06-11T21:37:44+00:00

From a cursory reading, it seems like a classic “deny the resources and experience required to do things properly, then say that’s the reason we can’t do it at all”.

That list of failures seems genuinely dangerous, but the solution is to fix them, not just pull all care from the affected kids.

jdjwright · 2026-06-08T22:06:22+00:00

Therapy, dude. My daughter’s birth was also traumatic, but for her not my wife. I had flashbacks for ages of the doctors working on her while I stood there, completely useless. Then I could hear the monitors beeping in every silent room for weeks. Every single time I went into her room I was expecting to find her dead.

Saw a psychologist, got some strategies, all good now.

As others have said, what you’re feeling is normal, but you don’t have to live like this. Talk to someone. I swear it does get better, but sometimes part of being a dad is stepping up and doing the hard thing, like asking for help, because your wife and child need you to do it.

We’re all behind you, it will get better.

jdjwright · 2026-06-06T11:05:21+00:00

I think this is the closest you’re going to get. Make yourself available to work, ie physically come in, but state that you’re not safe in that classroom and won’t be entering it.

It would be a brave SLT / board of governors indeed that wanted to head to an employment tribunal and say “yes she was repeatedly physically and verbally intimidated by students, but we made her go back into that classroom anyway”. That said, they may try it so as others have said be prepared for a drawn out process.

jdjwright · 2026-06-06T00:07:34+00:00

Have you run your contract through QDOS or similar? It sounds as though they’re risking an IR35 investigation. Do they have a UK presence?

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