“A trade union has been ordered to let an independent expert examine its computer database to try to identify anonymous users of a forum it operated who allegedly defamed and harassed an airline pilot.”
OUT-LAW.com, 31st January 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Information Commissioner asked police to raid the home of a whistleblower days before he was due to give damaging evidence about alleged failings by the watchdog to Lord Justice Leveson’s public inquiry into media standards.”
The Independent, 31st January 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Lawyers have expressed concern over the European Commission’s overhaul of the EU’s online privacy rules that will see companies facing fines of as much as 2 per cent of annual turnover for breach of code.”
The Lawyer, 25th January 2012
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“Insurance firms Direct Line and Churchill – both owned by RBS – have been fined £2.17m for tampering with customer complaint files before submitting them to the Financial Services Authority (FSA).”
BBC News, 18th January 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The London-based lawyer at the centre of a long-running row over internet piracy has been suspended for two years and ordered to pay £76,000 in costs.”
The Guardian, 18th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The family of a former public schoolboy gunned down in a pub have been refused in their request to find out if his killer was in the country legally – to protect his privacy.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st December 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Information Commissioner has formally requested new powers to conduct compulsory data protection audits of local Government and public health organisations.”
OUT-LAW.com, 19th December 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The family of a British toddler who went missing 20 years ago have won a High Court battle to have his DNA released in a new attempt to trace him.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th December 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Ministers and Whitehall officials have been warned not to try to hide sensitive government information by using private emails and text messages.”
BBC News, 15th December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Different categories of data subject and stricter criteria for the processing of personal data could be introduced under leaked proposals dealing with how data can be shared between Europe’s law enforcement authorities.”
OUT-LAW.com, 14th December 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“Many proposals under consideration for the make-up of a new data protection regime in Europe are “incredibly draconian” and will create extra burdens on compliant businesses, an expert has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 12th December 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“A Welsh council has been issued with the highest ever fine levied by the UK’s data protection watchdog after mistakenly sending child protection documents to the wrong person.”
OUT-LAW.com, 8th December 2011
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“A new oversight body will be set up under a new EU data protection regime to help regulators investigate and enforce compliance with EU laws, the EU’s Justice Commissioner has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 8th December 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“A council which sent details of a child protection case to the wrong person has received a record £130,000 fine for breaching the Data Protection Act.”
BBC News, 6th December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An NHS Trust has been ordered to pay a man £12,500 in compensation for breaches of the Data Protection Act (DPA) after a nurse unlawfully accessed a man’s medical records, Plymouth County Court has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 5th December 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) had enough evidence to prosecute journalists for unlawfully obtaining personal data found during the watchdog’s Operation Motorman investigation, a former senior investigator at the ICO has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 5th December 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“References provided by schools about university applicants have been rendered worthless by the Data Protection Act, a crossbench peer has told the BBC.”
BBC News, 5th December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“EU member states cannot generally prohibit organisations’ legitimate and necessary but unauthorised processing of personal data where the information is not stored in specified public sources, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 28th November 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The 1.2m records released this week are an unprecedented exercise in open data, especially for a courts system long accused of operating a Victorian method of closed information.”
The Guardian, 25th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Court injunctions that force internet service providers (ISPs) to filter and monitor user traffic in order to prevent illegal file-sharing are contrary to EU law and fundamental rights, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th November 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
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