“The Government’s response to a Parliamentary report on the monitoring and legislation surrounding surveillance is ‘inadequate’ and it has ‘paid insufficient attention’ to the report’s recommendations, a follow up report has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 22nd June 2009
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“Social networking sites are legally responsible for their users’ privacy, Europe’s privacy watchdogs have confirmed. A committee of data protection regulators has said that the sites are ‘data controllers’, with all the legal obligations that brings.”
OUT-LAW.com, 22nd June 2009
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“DNA samples are being taken from children in a London borough at the rate of nearly one a day, figures show.”
BBC News, 8th June 2009
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“A code of conduct for handling personal data was launched in London yesterday. But the document is inconsistent on the need for consent when collecting personal data, according to a data protection expert. Sometimes consent is not necessary, he said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 2nd June 2009
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“Releasing data on the number of abortions performed for conditions like clubroot and cleft palate may cause ‘mental distress or harm’ to vulnerable women and must be kept secret, lawyers for the Department of Health have argued.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th May 2009
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“Patients will be able to demand that their health records are deleted from the massive database being built by the NHS, privacy regulator the Information Commissioner’s Office has said. Previously, patients could only have details ‘masked’, not deleted.”
OUT-LAW.com, 27th May 2009
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“Thousands of workers in the construction industry were denied employment because of a secret ‘blacklist’, a court heard today.”
The Independent, 27th May 2009
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“Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, has been warned that the government risks further damaging the public’s faith in politics after it emerged that plans for the police to keep innocent people’s DNA profiles for up to 12 years will become law without a Commons vote.”
The Guardian, 24th May 2009
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“NHS patients will be allowed to delete electronic summaries of their treatment records from a new national medical database, the Guardian has learned.”
The Guardian, 26th May 2009
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“A controversial database which holds the details of every child in England has now become available for childcare professionals to access.”
BBC News, 17th May 2009
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“The government is to outlaw the use by companies of covert blacklists that have prevented trade unionists from getting work. Ministers have been forced to act after a watchdog exposed widespread blacklisting in the construction industry this year.”
The Guardian, 10th May 2009
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“The government’s plans to reform the national DNA database were condemned yesterday by lawyers for the two innocent men whose European court victory forced ministers to change the rules.”
The Guardian, 8th May 2009
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“The DNA profiles of people released without charge or found not guilty by a court could be stored for up to 12 years on a national police database.”
The Times, 7th May 2009
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“The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, will publish plans this week for the destruction of the DNA profiles of nearly a million innocent people from the police national database. The government’s response follows a ruling by the European court of human rights last year that the practice of retaining the DNA profiles was illegal.”
The Guardian, 3rd May 2009
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“Organisations should not hand over employees’ personal details to private investigators except in very limited circumstances, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has warned.”
OUT-LAW.com, 30th April 2009
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“Parents fighting in the family courts for contact with their children are being denied access to their personal files by a corrupt system, a leading parental rights campaigner has said.”
The Times, 29th April 2009
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“New measures to maintain the capability of public authorities to obtain access to communications data were announced by the Home Secretary today.”
Home Office, 27th April 2009
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“Google Street View, the controversial website that shows 360-degree street views of many of Britain’s cities does not breach the Data Protection Act, the information commissioner ruled today.”
The Guardian, 23rd April 2009
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“The European commission yesterday called for the UK’s privacy laws to be tightened to protect internet surfers as it launched legal proceedings against the government for breaching data protection and so-called ePrivacy rules.”
The Guardian, 15th April 2009
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“New law forces service providers to record all your calls and emails from Monday.”
The Independent, 4th April 2009
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