Tag Archives: enforcement notice
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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Data Protection Fines – Deutsche Bahn syle
The Berlin data protection registrar (Berliner Beauftragter für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit) has completed an investigation into employee monitoring by Deutsche Bahn, the German federal railway company. On 16 October 2009 he imposed a fine on Deutsche Bahn of €1.1 million. … Continue reading
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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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To fine, or not to fine: that is the question
Compare and contrast the following recent data protection cases: 1. HSBC: fined, after discount, over £3m by the FSA. 2. Ian Kerr: prosecuted and fined £5,000. 3. Highland Council: asked to give undertaking to get its laptops encrypted. The HSBC … 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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Andrew Sharpe
