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Comment What he's taken to doing now is getting an undertaking from individuals and organisations that have breached the Data Protection Act, and naming and shaming them in press releases," she says. Data Protection Act
[08 Apr 2008]
Comment Many will be aware now that the seventh principle of the Data Protection Act requires businesses to take appropriate technical and organisational measures to guard against accidental data loss. Compliance with the new Companies Act and the Data...
[27 Mar 2008]
Comment I don't want it to take another data breach - followed by identity thieves exploiting that lost data to rip off the unlucky public - before the government decides to act. Their other suggestions included increasing resources for the police to deal...
[27 Feb 2008]
Comment Seven months after we launched our Full Disclosure campaign calling for a rethink of legislation in this area, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is now asking that knowingly or recklessly breaching the Data Protection Act should be made...
[06 Feb 2008]
Comment There is actually no explicit obligation under the Data Protection Act (DPA) to use encryption, although the DPA does state that 'appropriate technical and organisational measures' should be taken to ensure data is kept completely secure, which...
[21 Dec 2007]
Comment It's nothing to do with the DP [Data Protection] Act. I thought that EU Data Protection laws meant that data could not be exported to the USA without permission because of their different data protection standards.
[20 Dec 2007]
Comment The law, in the UK represented by the Data Protection Act, is not fit for purpose. Public outrage about the HMRC's catastrophic data protection failure is justified. Data protection laws need to be fundamentally re-evaluated, with technological...
[27 Nov 2007]
Leader Equally, when a crime is committed companies also need to be able to report it to police who will act on the information - although that is a separate issue. But the idea is the same - take any one of the ingredients away and the problem ought to...
[08 Oct 2007]
Comment The report from the Information Commissioner's Office out last month highlighted that public sector organisations are still not taking the Data Protection Act (DPA) seriously enough. Yet recent reports saw Home Secretary Jacqui Smith flouting Data...
[13 Sep 2007]
Comment So let's get out there and bark.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign is about giving the public confidence that when they entrust their personal information to an organisation it will act as a responsible guardian of that data.
[04 Sep 2007]
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Tony Hallett flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Peter Cochrane's Video Blog: Fractal coding - Peter's new format, love the subject too ¦ Skills Survey 2007: Banks hardest hit by staff crisis...
[30 Aug 2007]
Comment While other companies make commitments - though do not necessarily act on them - on greener manufacturing and recycling, Apple keeps its future hardware under wraps, thereby failing a number of Greenpeace's criteria.
[23 Aug 2007]
Comment Over the last year silicon.com has reported on a number of stories, such as laptop thefts and Data Protection Act breaches by banks, which show there is still much to do to improve the way the organisations treat information they hold about the...
[16 Jul 2007]
Comment These rights are bolstered by privacy rights in the Data Protection Act which apply as much to employees as they do to customers. Under the Data Protection Act, the company is responsible for the security of the confidential client data it holds.
[10 May 2006]
Comment A spokeswoman told us: "There is nothing in the Data Protection Act that legally obliges companies to inform customers when these things occur. By contrast, in California the Security Breach Information Act (Sbia) requires any company with a...
[10 May 2006]
Comment The Department for Health has so far blocked a request made by silicon.com under the Freedom of Information Act for details of Granger's salary, bonuses and expenses, saying it could infringe his rights under the Data Protection Act.
[20 Apr 2006]
Leader After a reporter from a national tabloid newspaper exposed poor data security in an Indian call centre by obtaining the bank and credit card details of 1,000 UK bank customers, the ICO boldly warned that the banks using the centre could face...
[13 Jan 2006]
Leader There are enough tools to do it legally without breaking the Data Protection Act. Thanks to the introduction of CCTV, sophisticated alarm systems and forensic methods, bank robbers have changed tactics - the risk of getting caught for forced entry...
[29 Nov 2005]
Comment The Data Protection Act discusses the processing, storage, display or transmission of personal data, with the assumption that computers and networks are involved. The Terrorism Act talks of interference to electronic systems; and other laws refer...
[19 Oct 2005]
Comment The Data Protection Act talks of 'processing', 'data' and 'information'; it talks of 'structured', 'transmitted' and of 'displayed' - and it makes only the vaguest of definitions of what is meant by any of those terms.
[18 Aug 2005]
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