Tag Archives: data retention regulations
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
Filed under Data Protection, Telecoms Regulation
Public not convinced on data retention
Readers of the Metro may have already seen that a survey by PoliticsHome.com has found that there was little public support for the retention of communications data by communications providers. In the current data protection environment, we are not surprised.
Filed under Data Protection
Nothing gets in the way of “National Security”
Some of our team, as members of the Society of Computers and Law, argued in the SCL’s response to the Home Office consultation on the Data Retention Regulations that the Home Office had not made out a coherent case for … Continue reading
Filed under Data Protection, Telecoms Regulation
Andrew Sharpe
