“The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has yet to begin investigating websites accused of breaking the new cookie laws, which came into force last year, because it does not yet have an investigative team in place.”
OUT-LAW.com, 20th August 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Fifty English councils are bringing in policies to tackle the rise in the number of people with learning disabilities entering forced marriages.”
BBC News, 1st August 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A psychic who conned young female disciples into stripping off for raunchy spiritualist sessions is facing jail.”
The Independent, 22nd June 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Website operators can only take advantage of an exemption from new cookie laws if site users specifically request a service or function and that service would not work without the serving of the cookie, EU data protection regulators have warned.”
OUT-LAW.com, 13th June 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“UK authorities are beginning tentatively to enforce the cookies law and, after the compliance panic of the past month, companies can now sit back and examine where the fault lies for the development of such a poor, troublesome law.”
OUT-LAW.com, 13th June 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Fewer than one in five major UK organisations have introduced mechanisms on their websites for obtaining users’ consent to ‘cookies’ which are compliant with the law, an accountancy firm has claimed.”
OUT-LAW.com, 6th June 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Organisations that properly anonymise personally identifying information do not have to comply with data protection laws in order to disclose the altered information, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 31st May 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“New EU regulations on the use by British websites of cookies have been watered down by the UK’s information commissioner just hours before they were due to come into force.”
The Guardian, 26th May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Three years have gone by since the European Parliament shocked and awed everyone by tweaking the e-privacy directive and introducing the most controversial word in the data protection glossary – consent – in the provision that deals with Internet cookies.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 18th May 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“Sally Bradley, Barrister, of 4 Paper Buildings analyses recent decisions in the Court of Protection relating to capacity to consent to sexual relations, DNA testing and statutory wills.”
Family Law Week, 11th May 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.com
“Websites track visitors’ activity, but will legal changes to users’ consent make a difference to the Guardian or other sites?”
The Guardian, 13th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The UK’s data protection watchdog is not likely to take action against the users of data analytics cookies on websites even if they fall foul of new EU rules on cookie consent, it has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 10th April 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
Social networking sites need to obtain users’ ‘informed consent’ before suggesting to other users that those individuals feature in photos that they are uploading to the site, an EU privacy watchdog has said.
OUT-LAW.com, 4th April 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“The premium rate phone regulator might disregard consumer consent for paid-for mobile applications if those apps turn out to contain malicious code, the premium rate services (PRS) regulator has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 29th February 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Court of Protection has ruled that an autistic woman with an IQ of 64 does not have the mental capacity to engage in sexual relations, on the basis that she does not understand the implications and cannot effectively deploy the information she has understood into her decisions.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 14th February 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Website publishers must do more to make sure that they are in compliance with new laws introduced this year on informing web users about the use of cookies, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 15th December 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The government is facing growing pressure to reveal how the Prince of Wales has used his power of consent over draft legislation after it emerged ministers asked him to approve planning and construction laws because they might directly affect the private £700m property empire that provides his annual income.”
The Guardian, 31st October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“EU data protection watchdogs have contradicted UK regulations on the use of cookies, advising the European Commission to specify that user consent must be obtained before cookies are used.”
OUT-LAW.com, 25th July 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“Warning notices at the top of websites, annoying pop-up windows, forms asking for your consent … fears have been voiced that browsing the web could become more complicated and time-consuming as a result of ‘challenging’ new EU rules on internet cookies.”
The Guardian, 28th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“New laws governing cookies, personal data breaches and the powers of the UK’s privacy watchdog come into force today. The Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendment) Regulations implement changes in EU law.”
OUT-LAW.com, 26th May 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
