“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
“Local authorities in the UK have collectively lost personal data on at least 1035 occasions in the past three years, a privacy group has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th November 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“Investment banks and financial traders in the UK must now record the mobile phone conversations of their staff following the closure of a regulatory loophole.”
OUT-LAW.com, 17th November 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“EU member states will not be able to guarantee that individuals’ personal data has been deleted from the internet even if the ‘right to be forgotten’ is introduced under new data protection laws, the Culture Minister has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 14th November 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“A man who made approximately £25,000 from selling unlawfully obtained personal data has been issued with a £1,700 fine and conditional discharge by a UK court.”
OUT-LAW.com, 14th November 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“Oliver Letwin committed a series of data protection breaches by dumping correspondence from constituents in a park bin close to Downing Street, according to the information commissioner.”
The Guardian, 15th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The BBC revealed last week that the News of the World (NoW) had engaged ex-policeman Derek Webb to carry out covert surveillance of more than 100 individuals. From 2003 through to 2011 Webb worked for the newspaper following celebrities, royals, politicians and others, sometimes for days, or weeks at a time. For example, former Home Secretary Charles Clarke MP is said to have been watched for more than 20 days.”
Legal Week, 14th November 2011
Source: www.legalweek.com
“A system where newspaper stories can be ‘locked away’ but not entirely deleted from archives under new data protection law proposals could be used to ensure a balance is struck between privacy and free speech rights, a media law expert has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 10th November 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“BT and TalkTalk have a ‘real prospect of success’ in arguing that the UK’s Digital Economy Act (DEA) violates EU laws on liability for communications made over the internet, a UK judge has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 31st October 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“Courts should have the power to punish people breaching the Data Protection Act with prison sentences, MPs on the justice select committee have said.”
BBC News, 27th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Cabinet Office minister Oliver Letwin has been cleared of allegations that he could have committed a security breach after being photographed dumping work-related documents in bins in a park close to Downing Street.”
The Guardian, 20th Ocober 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The office of the Information Commissioner has confirmed it is investigating claims that the Conservative minister Oliver Letwin has been disposing of government documents in bins in a park close to Downing Street.”
The Guardian, 14th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Parts of a proposed civil rights law threaten the UK’s compliance with human rights obligations and infringe on individuals’ rights, Parliament’s Human Rights Joint Committee has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 11th October 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“Organisations do not have to issue all the information stored in complaint files in order to comply with individuals’ personal data access requests, the UK’s data protection watchdog has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 10th October 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
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