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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...
(ISC)² warns new big fines are finally bringing data security to boards’ attentions
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...
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
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...
Coroners and Justice Act brought into force to allow Information Commissioner to inspect premises for data protection breaches
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...
Government data handling improving, says Data Handling Review
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,...
Organisations holding data could receive half a million pound fines for serious data breaches from 6 April
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...
School admits to loss of laptop containing sensitive personal data of over 1,000 pupils and staff
A school has admitted storing sensitive personal data of about 1,200 pupils and staff on an unencrypted laptop, which was subsequently stolen. The Information Commissioner’s Office – the regulator...
Personal data of customers at leading UK mobile phone company sold by staff for substantial sums to brokers and used by other mobile phone firms
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...
Information Commissioner wants powers to inspect organisations’ use of data…
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...
Information Commissioner discloses details of police officers breaching data protection laws to snoop
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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Italian prison sentences for Google executives for user-generated material sends shockwaves across the Internet
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Computer games designer’s failure to disclose his previous ideas meant employing company owned them – Burrows v Smith, High Court
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