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Data protection: where are the fines?

Regular readers of this blog (thank you!) will know that we consider the Information Commissioner’s lack of enforcement and regulatory powers to be a serious deficiency in the UK’s data protection and privacy law. To emphasise the point yet again, … Continue reading

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Information Commissioner hates lawyers?

We think the Information Commissioner has been reading too much Shakespeare, particularly Henry VI (Part 2).  One of the most cited quotes from the play is, of course: “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers”. – (Act … Continue reading

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Snooping and vetting

At Charles Russell we have a generic data protection email address – feel free to drop us a question for a short, informal reply: dataprotection@charlesrussell.co.uk. So it’s a little ironic in the week of the Ian Kerr Enforcement Notice (concerning … Continue reading

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