“The decision of the Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis to issue and serve warning notices to those who had been accused of harassment or stalking by means of a Prevention of Harassment Letter or a Police Information Notice, and the retention of the documents or the underlying allegations in police records thereafter, could not give rise to any infringement of the subject’s rights under article 8 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms or under the terms of the Data Protection Act 1998 and the associated principles.”
WLR Daily, 27th April 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A Welsh health board has become the first NHS body to be fined for breaching the Data Protection Act after it released sensitive data about a patient to the wrong person.”
BBC News, 30th April 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The UK’s data protection watchdog has defended its policy of issuing fines after newly released figures suggested private sector organisations are issued with disproportionately fewer fines than local Government ones.”
OUT-LAW.com, 27th April 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Six public bodies were fined over personal data security breaches in the last year despite hundreds of reported cases, a report said today.”
The Independent, 25th April 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The names of three junior members of staff who had handled complaints made to the financial services regulator should have been disclosed as part of a freedom of information request as disclosure ‘did not adversely affect their privacy’, a tribunal has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 18th April 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Third-party companies will not be able to access data recorded in consumers’ smart meters unless consumers choose to let them see it, the Government has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 12th April 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“A political blogger may have breached UK data protection laws after posting a list of journalists and the requests they allegedly made to a private detective to ‘blag’ information for stories.”
OUT-LAW.com, 11th April 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Councils should be prepared to disclose the names of senior staff members involved in recruiting senior councillors or officials as well as details of the role they played in that recruitment, an Information Rights Tribunal has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 4th April 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Organisations should have the ability to search their computer systems for records of personal data they store and should have transparent policies and practices if they delete that information, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 30th March 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Information Commissioner’s Office has warned employers in the UK that it would have ‘very serious concerns’ if they were to ask for Facebook login and password details from existing or would-be employees, following reports of such demands in the US.”
The Guardian, 26th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Lancashire Constabulary has become the first UK police force to be fined by the UK data protection watchdog after it lost a document containing information about a 15 year old girl who had been raped.”
OUT-LAW.com, 15th March 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has reduced fines for organisations that have breached data protection law in half of the cases in which it has issued direct fines, Out-Law.com can reveal.”
OUT-LAW.com, 15th March 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“These are truly exhilarating times for the data protection world. Viviane Reding’s recent announcement of the Commission’s proposal for a fully harmonised European data protection framework had the connotations of an Olympic opening ceremony – the years of hard work in preparation for this moment, the sense of achievement in the face of challenge and the triumphant belief that something memorable is going to come out of this. Only the big drums and the flame were missing. The jury is now out but this is without a doubt the most significant global legislative development affecting the collection, use and protection of personal information of the past 15 years.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 2nd March 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“Regulators will not be able to hold companies based outside the EU accountable to proposed new data protection laws unless current enforcement mechanisms are changed, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 29th February 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Christopher Graham said ‘chicken feed fines’ were insufficient to deter individuals from blagging information and expressed frustration that the ability to issue prison sentences to data blaggers for offences under the Data Protection Act (DPA) has still to be introduced. Blagging is the use of deceit to extract personal data from people or organisations.”
OUT-LAW.com, 28th February 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“The operators of social networking sites, such as Facebook, would not be obliged to delete every piece of information about individuals that they host under proposed new EU ‘right to be forgotten’ laws, the European Commission has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th February 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
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