17 December 2009 | Paul Gershlick
Staff at a leading mobile phone company in the UK sold data about their employer’s customers to brokers in flagrant breach of the Data Protection Act. Customers had wondered why they were being contacted...
Tags on this discussion: data protection Information Commissioner's Office privacy
17 December 2009 | Paul Gershlick
Here are my predictions for 2010, as quoted by the Society for Computers & Law:
"Last year, I predicted that IT projects would take a battering unless they could be financially justified by reducing...
Tags on this discussion: data protection DPA IT project licence misuse of data Software
15 December 2009 | Paul Gershlick
The Information Commissioner – the regulator in charge of enforcing data protection law in the UK - has called for powers to carry out spot checks on organisations to see if they are complying with...
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14 December 2009 | Paul Gershlick
The Information Commissioner - the regulator in charge of enforcing data protection law in the UK - has revealed details of police officers who have wrongfully accessed people's personal data without the...
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14 December 2009 | Paul Gershlick
Whatever next? NHS patients' paper records have turned up as packaging to wrap gifts up in at a jewellery shop! The records had originally come from Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, although the...
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3 December 2009 | Mark Weston
The Information Commissioner’s Office – the body in charge of enforcing UK data protection laws – has been given greater enforcement powers, as the Coroners and Justice Bill has been passed. The...
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2 December 2009 | Mark Weston
The European Commission has passed a new privacy regulation which would require communications providers and Internet service providers to notify individuals whose personal details have been exposed to...
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2 December 2009 | Samantha Lloyd
The Government has launched a consultation which would provide the Information Commissioner’s Office - the UK's data protection regulator - with powers to fine organisations up to a maximum of £500,000...
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18 November 2009 | Paul Gershlick
The Ministry of Justice has commenced a consultation on the introduction of custodial sentences for the misuse of personal data. It is an offence under the Data Protection Act 1998 to knowingly or recklessly...
18 November 2009 | Paul Gershlick
Businesses are failing to report cybercrime because of fears that a police investigation will result in a greater loss to business than the crime itself. As well as concerns that day-to-day business will...
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