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News The prospect of substantial fines for deliberate or reckless breaches of the data protection principles will act as a strong deterrent and help ensure that organisations take their data protection obligations more seriously.
[12 May 2008]
News Phorm - whose Webwise and Open Internet Exchange (OIX) technologies were used by BT in a trial on its customers - says the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) is wrong to say the use of Phorm's technologies constituted unlawful...
[11 Apr 2008]
News But the CDD and others want the FTC to go further by expanding the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (Coppa) to cover teens between 13 and 18 years old. The rules that limit websites and marketers from collecting data on children under 13...
[10 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 ICO advises concerned consumers to refer to the Data Protection Act which, among other things, states organisations should always say what they plan to do with information and always keep it up to date.
[19 Mar 2008]
News And silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign has been calling for a rethink of the UK's data protection laws to make it clearer to companies how they should act when faced with a data breach. Costs for financial services firms were higher, which the...
[25 Feb 2008]
News Skipton Financial Services (SFS) has been found to have been in breach of the Data Protection Act by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) - but has escaped without any punishment. The financial advisor company suffered the theft of an...
[21 Feb 2008]
News The poll follows on from the HM Revenue & Customs loss in November 2007 of two CDs containing the details of 25 million people and a flurry of reported incidents since.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign recently made a breakthrough when the...
[14 Feb 2008]
News The personal data is encrypted immediately and is destroyed within 24 hours of use in accordance with the UK Data Protection Act. Biometric data is already in use for border control purposes at other airports in the UK, including Gatwick and...
[08 Feb 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]
News The ICO found that M&S breached the Data Protection Act by not taking appropriate measures to ensure the security of its data by making sure the laptop data was encrypted. Mick Gorrill, assistant commissioner at the ICO, added in a statement: "It...
[25 Jan 2008]
News Fox said: "This seems like a systemic failure, not a single act of incompetence. The Ministry of Defence has had two further laptops stolen, admitted Defence Secretary Des Browne.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for...
[22 Jan 2008]
News We take these matters very seriously indeed, and as soon as these concerns were brought to our attention we took immediate steps to resolve them and to ensure we are fully compliant with the Data Protection Act.
[16 Jan 2008]
News He said: "The Data Protection Act offers woeful protection for employees and I would call on the government to present greater protections. Privacy advocates say the surge in cyber snooping by bosses will land an increasing number of employers in...
[08 Jan 2008]
News Joseph Hoban, VP at data protection software company GuardianEdge, said: "With more public sector data breaches on the horizon, the government must act now to avoid a certain repeat of the HMRC debacle.
[04 Jan 2008]
News Currently only third-parties can be prosecuted under the Data Protection Act for offences such as unlawfully obtaining or disclosing personal data. Jonathan Armstrong, technology lawyer with Eversheds, said the government should take care not to...
[03 Jan 2008]
News The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act's section restricting the "circumvention" of copy protection measures is supported by many copyright holders but has been criticised by some technologists as hindering innovation.
[03 Jan 2008]
News Darling said the Information Commissioner's Office, as well as being given powers to "spot check" public-sector organisations, would receive "new sanction under the Data Protection Act to take account of its principles, to ensure sensible data...
[18 Dec 2007]
News The UK's data protection watchdog already published new guidelines for individuals to better understand how and why organisations use their data under the current Data Protection Act in August 2007. Downing Street's response to the silicon.com...
[10 Dec 2007]
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