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whitepaper The Document Process Automation (DPA) market covers solutions for reducing the use of paper in order management processes or in company communications. This IDC white paper focuses on DPA of order management processes governing incoming documents...
[30 Apr 2008]
Comment And Phil Huggins, CTO of security consultancy IRM, thinks the DPA will become more of an issue as the 2006 Companies Act begins to impact operations. That's something that might give the DPA as much impetus as section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act...
[08 Apr 2008]
News In a document submitted to government in January this year, information commissioner Richard Thomas called for the Data Protection Act (DPA) to be amended to include a penalty for data controllers "knowingly or recklessly failing to comply with...
[03 Apr 2008]
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is asking that "knowingly or recklessly" breaching the Data Protection Act (DPA) could be made a criminal offence, as part of a series of amendments to the act.
[31 Jan 2008]
News In a document submitted to government, information commissioner Richard Thomas called for the Data Protection Act (DPA) to be amended to include a penalty for data controllers "knowingly or recklessly failing to comply with the principles" of the...
[31 Jan 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 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. But that doesn't mean that with a greater focus, individual...
[13 Sep 2007]
Cheat Sheet It also prosecuted 16 individuals and organisations for DPA breaches. So has the DPA changed much since 2001? And back in May, the information commissioner demanded the ICO be given more power to check if companies are complying with the DPA.
[28 Aug 2007]
News The ICO received complaints under both the Data Protection Act (DPA) and Freedom of Information Act. More than half of DPA cases required the ICO to simply provide advice and guidance, while a breach was likely to have happened in more than one...
[11 Jul 2007]
News Orange and Littlewoods have been found to be in breach of the data protection act (DPA) by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). The finding relates to customer details being left open to potential fraud or retained without customer consent.
[22 Jun 2007]
News The ICO said Infofind had signed an agreement with its finance client to work within the confines of the Data Protection Act (DPA) but breached it repeatedly by blagging information on individuals protected under the DPA.
[24 Apr 2007]
News A number of UK banks have been found to be in breach of the Data Protection Act (DPA) following complaints about the disposal of customer information. She added all 12 organisations have now signed an undertaking to comply with the principles of...
[14 Mar 2007]
News Under the Data Protection Act (DPA) individuals have the right to request digital information relating to them which businesses store. The guidance covers a wide range of issues for SMEs including whether requests should be dealt with according to...
[13 Feb 2007]
News The long arm of the law has caught up with four scammers who have been sentenced to jail this week for sending out fake data protection notices demanding businesses pay up or risk falling foul of the Data Protection Act (DPA).
[31 Jan 2007]
whitepaper For the marketing teams in many professional services firms, understanding what they need to do in order to become (and remain) compliant with the requirements of the UK Data Protection Act (DPA) is at best a challenge and at worst a confusing...
[10 Jan 2007]
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has warned UK businesses to be on the lookout for fake data protection notices. The warning comes after two men were ordered to pay back hundreds of thousands of pounds after taking fees from UK...
[25 Oct 2006]
News Companies can't use the Data Protection Act (DPA) as an excuse not to release personal information when it is needed in the fight against crime. It said an exemption under section 29 of the DPA allows organisations to give out personal information...
[20 Oct 2006]
whitepaper There are, however, some major risks associated with choosing this strategy: potential damage to the organisation's reputation if the strategy is poorly managed, opening the organisation up to breaches of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) as well...
[06 Oct 2006]
News A spokeswoman for the ICO said if the demands of the enforcement notice are not met then b4u will be open to prosecution under the DPA. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has ordered a website which provides personal information on UK...
[04 Jul 2006]
News Nearly half of UK companies could be breaching the Data Protection Act (DPA) through the misuse of customer data, according to research published on Monday. This is a breach of the second principle of the DPA, which states data should not be used...
[04 Jul 2006]
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