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Could law firm sending out mass letters for copyright infringement be first to incur new £500,000 fines for serious data protection breaches?…

7 October 2010 | Mark Weston

ACS:Law may be the first business to incur the recently introduced expanded fines of up to £500,000. The controversial law firm has made its name by sending out thousands of letters to alleged peer-to-peer...

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BIS consults on implementation of new E-Privacy Directive

28 September 2010 | Mark Weston

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is consulting on plans to implement a new E-Privacy Directive. The European Union law was passed in 2009 and needs to be implemented into domestic law...

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Information Commissioner’s Office sounds warning for estate agents

15 September 2010 | Paul Gershlick

Estate agents have been warned: the Information Commissioner’s Office is looking to check you out. The ICO – the regulator in charge of enforcing data protection law in the UK – has warned estate...

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CAP Code to apply to material on own websites

8 September 2010 | Mark Weston

The CAP Code is being extended to apply to material on organisations’ own websites. The CAP Code is a code of practice governing the content of adverts and marketing communications. It is administered...

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Virgin’s service email to customer who had opted out of marketing communications broke CAP Code

16 August 2010 | Mark Weston

Virgin Media breached the CAP Code by emailing a customer who had opted-out of marketing communications with details of other aspects of the service that the customer may be missing out on. Virgin argued...

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ICO gives Google minor ticking off for its interception of wireless data during Street View data gathering

11 August 2010 | Mark Weston

The Information Commissioner’s Office has given Google a ticking off but went on to say that no further action was necessary after the UK’s data protection regulator had investigated the search engine...

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Public sector staff have culture of inappropriate snooping on personal data

23 July 2010 | Mark Weston

About 30 public sector staff have been sacked in the last year for inappropriately snooping on personal data that had come from the Department for Work and Pensions’ Customer Information System. The...

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UK businesses not confident about compliance with data protection laws and concerned for the costs involved, but vast majority think rules should be tougher

21 July 2010 | Paul Gershlick

About 50% of UK businesses think the UK’s data protection laws should be tougher, and 87% want anyone disclosing sensitive data to be required to reveal that fact. That is according to a survey of 1,200...

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Information Commissioner issues code of practice for online behavioural advertising

20 July 2010 | Paul Gershlick

The Information Commissioner’s Office – the UK’s data protection regulator – has issued a code of practice dealing with online behavioural advertising issues. Online behavioural advertising refers...

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Information Commissioner calls for prison sentences for data breaches, as data complaints to the regulator rise

16 July 2010 | Mark Weston

Christopher Graham, the Information Commissioner, has called for prison sentences to deter the illegal sale and purchase of people’s data. Graham, who is in charge of regulating data in the UK, said...

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Latest news and views tagged data protection act

Could law firm sending out mass letters for copyright infringement be first to incur new £500,000 fines for serious data protection breaches?…

BIS consults on implementation of new E-Privacy Directive

Information Commissioner’s Office sounds warning for estate agents

CAP Code to apply to material on own websites

Virgin’s service email to customer who had opted out of marketing communications broke CAP Code

ICO gives Google minor ticking off for its interception of wireless data during Street View data gathering

Public sector staff have culture of inappropriate snooping on personal data

UK businesses not confident about compliance with data protection laws and concerned for the costs involved, but vast majority think rules should be tougher

Information Commissioner issues code of practice for online behavioural advertising

Information Commissioner calls for prison sentences for data breaches, as data complaints to the regulator rise

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