Tag Archives: Data Protection
Revised cookies’ law and lack of guidance takes the biscuit
I was asked a couple of days ago to prepare an email alert for clients on a commercial law update circulation list to describe compliance steps required for the new cookies law. This turns out to be virtually impossible. Much … Continue reading
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DoJ, Wikileaks and Twitter: Stones and Glasshouses
There seems to be a degree of outrage on many social media channels about the Department of Justice in the United States obtaining a court order to require the US-based social media platform Twitter, and possible Facebook and Google as … Continue reading
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The Daily Mail, Dorries and Data Protection
Our last two posts addressed the position of Nadine Dorries MP under the Data Protection Act 1998 (the “DPA”) in respect of sensitive personal data concerning her partner’s wife posted on the MP’s website in her Personal Statement to the … Continue reading
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Nadine Dorries Press Statement: enforcement and remedy
In our previous post we reviewed in the context of yesterday’s personal statement to the press by Nadine Dorries MP, whether the publication of a person’s medical condition on a website could be unlawful under the Data Protection Act 1998 … Continue reading
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Domestic purposes abuse?
Today, Nadine Dorries MP issued on her blog a personal statement to the press. In the statement she describes how she has embarked upon a romantic relationship with an old family friend. However, the statement also includes personal statements from … Continue reading
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There’s slow and then there’s the European Commission
The main directive that governs the processing of personal information in the European Union, the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC, was signed by the European Parliament and Council on 24 October 1995. It had to be implemented by member states within … Continue reading
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Monetary Penalties under the Data Protection Act 1998
It has been a long time coming, but finally the Information Commissioner is about to get fining powers to enforce the Data Protection Act 1998. Not all the required orders and regulations required to bring the relevant sections of the … Continue reading
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Once bitten; twice shy?
Humberside Police will forever be remembered in data protection circles for being the police force that blamed the Data Protection Act 1998 for its policy of deleting information relating to allegations about the commission of criminal offences, including those of … Continue reading
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In defence of the ICO (and regulators)
The ICO was recently criticised in an opinion piece in The Lawyer for disclosing that staff at an unnamed mobile network operator had allegedly sold details of customers. The piece rightly pointed out that with only 5 operators to whom … Continue reading
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A fine way to equality of arms
So, after an inordinate and unexplained delay from Royal Assent of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (8 May 2008) until earlier this month, the Ministry of Justice has finally published a consultation document on the maximum monetary penalty … Continue reading
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Andrew Sharpe
