Tag Archives: Information Commissioner
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
Filed under Data Protection
Is 17p per unsecure online file a fair monetary penalty?
On 10 May 2011 the Information Commissioner imposed a £1,000 monetary penalty on Andrew Crossley, trading as ACS Law, for a serious breach of security that permitted over 6,000 individuals’ details to be accessible on an unsecured website. Already, there … Continue reading
Filed under Data Protection
Ofcom’s Sitefinder: rumours of its death have been greatly exaggerated?
I’ve always had more than a passing interest in the Ofcom Sitefinder, because prior to re-qualifying as a lawyer I was a communications engineer. I was also a specialist radiation safety officer. Sitefinder allows you to search any location or … Continue reading
Filed under Administrative Law, Freedom of Information, Telecoms Regulation
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
Filed under Data Protection
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
Filed under Data Protection
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
Filed under Data Protection
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
Filed under Data Protection, Telecoms Regulation
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
Filed under Data Protection
Mid Staffs stuffed – but we can all learn from it?
Mid Staffs NHS Foundation Trust is one of the latest organisations to agree to give an undertaking to the Information Commissioner as a result of a data protection security breach. However, the circumstances of the breach are, we suspect, so … Continue reading
Filed under Data Protection
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
Filed under Data Protection
Andrew Sharpe
