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Over half of employees admit that they would take employer’s property before leaving their employment

1 September 2010 | Mark Weston

52% of employees would steal their employer’s property before leaving their employment. Nearly a quarter would take customer contact details, while a similar number would take stationery. These are the...

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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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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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Google’s Street View cars have been recording people’s wi-fi communications in error

25 May 2010 | Mark Weston

Google has been involved in more controversy over its Street View service, as its cars have been inadvertently collecting the contents of wireless communications from people’s unsecured wi-fi networks...

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Google suffers stinging attack on its privacy practices from leading privacy regulators in Buzz storm

23 April 2010 | Paul Gershlick

Google has received a stinging attack from leading privacy regulators. The online giant came under fire after it had launched a new service called Buzz that took what had previously been private data from...

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Parties set out stall in election manifestos

21 April 2010 | Paul Gershlick

The political parties have made their manifesto pledges in the run-up to the General Election. Some say manifesto pledges are there to be broken. Nevertheless, they’re a good indication of the way a...

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ICO warns three councils about future conduct after not protecting data sufficiently

13 April 2010 | Paul Gershlick

The Information Commissioner’s Office – the regulator in charge of enforcing data protection laws in the UK – has come down hard on three councils after they failed to protect the security of personal...

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

19 February 2010 | Mark Weston

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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Latest news and views tagged misuse of data

Over half of employees admit that they would take employer’s property before leaving their employment

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

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

Google’s Street View cars have been recording people’s wi-fi communications in error

Google suffers stinging attack on its privacy practices from leading privacy regulators in Buzz storm

Parties set out stall in election manifestos

ICO warns three councils about future conduct after not protecting data sufficiently

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

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