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European data protection supervisor concerned over data protection issues with international anti-counterfeiting trade agreement

25 February 2010 | Paul Gershlick

Peter Hustinx – the European data protection supervisor – has expressed concern that the anti-counterfeiting trade agreement currently being negotiated may not be protecting people’s data protection...

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Information Commissioner’s Office won’t go soft on charities on data compliance

23 February 2010 | Paul Gershlick

The Information Commissioner’s Office has hit a clear warning to charities that it won’t go soft on them, after it required the Alzheimer’s Society to sign a formal undertaking agreeing to comply...

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(ISC)² warns new big fines are finally bringing data security to boards’ attentions

19 February 2010 | Paul Gershlick

Imminent fines are bringing data security issues to boards’ attentions. Those are the comments of John Colley, EMEA managing director of (ISC)². (ISC)² is a not-for-profit organisation that educates...

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European Commission updates data export laws to take account of sub-contracting in outsourced processing

18 February 2010 | Paul Gershlick

Under the EU’s Data Protection Directive, personal data cannot be transferred out of the European Economic Area unless there is adequate protection of the data. One way of ensuring adequate protection...

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Tax TV

18 February 2010 | Shimon Shaw

In what seems to me to be a slightly odd use of taxpayer's money, HMRC have decided to sponsor a new channel 5 TV show - the Business Inspector. The justification of this is that the programme will...

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It’s a case of ‘Do As We Tell You’ not ‘Do As We Do’ as Labour is the latest political party caught out for flouting privacy laws when canvassing

1 comment 10 February 2010 | Paul Gershlick

The Labour Party has embarrassingly been told off for breaching the privacy rights of 500,000 people in a canvassing campaign, when it sent the recipients a recorded message of actress Liz Dawn telling...

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Coroners and Justice Act brought into force to allow Information Commissioner to inspect premises for data protection breaches

9 February 2010 | Mark Weston

Sections 173 to 175 of the Coroners and Justice Act has been brought into force as of 1 February. This gives the Information Commissioner – the data protection regulator in the UK – the right to inspect...

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Government data handling improving, says Data Handling Review

21 January 2010 | Paul Gershlick

The way the public sector handles personal data is improving. Those are the findings of the first annual report on the progress made since the Data Handling Review. The Review was conducted by Gus O’Donnell,...

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Organisations holding data could receive half a million pound fines for serious data breaches from 6 April

18 January 2010 | Paul Gershlick

After a long campaign, the Information Commissioner’s Office – the regulator in charge of enforcing data protection laws in the UK – is about to get their wish. They won’t have to jump through...

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Facebook criticised over new privacy settings

22 December 2009 | Mark Weston

Facebook – the social networking phenomenon – has come under fierce criticism for changing the way the privacy settings operate for users. It recently invited users to change their settings, even where...

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