The Information Commissioner’s Office has launched a new consultation exercise concerning its approach to data protection concerns….
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Another five predictions, covering law and IT for lawyers with great perception. In alphabetical order, we have predictions from Mark Crichard, Joanna Goodman, Dr Monica Horten, Jane Seager and Graham Smith….
Helen Hart reports on the SCL 40th Anniversary Dinner…
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Paul Klinger and Rachel Burnett discuss the content and procedures involved in effective non-disclosure agreements….
Janine Regan contemplates the rising importance attached to data protection in many countries in the Asia-Pacific region…
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The focus on SCL’s 40 years begins to dim after the House of Commons celebration and we refocus on the future. Here, in keeping with our, fairly desperate, Christmas music theme are five gold and ringing predictions, in strict alphabetical order, from Charles Holloway, Ben Horton, Marion Oswald, Michael Taylor and Mike Taylor….
A GP surgery manager has been prosecuted for illegally
accessing patients’ medical records…
The Christmas music has been in the shops for weeks and a Christmas card has been received so it must be time for the SCL Predictions to begin. In strict alphabetical order, and in a complete reversal of the Christmas song, we begin with 12 lords (and ladies) a leaping: Kit Burden, Jan Durant, Beverley Flynn, Paul Gershlick, Andrew Haslam, Tom Hiskey, Stewart James, Daniel Pollick, Joe Reevy, John Salmon, Callum Sinclair and Peter Sommer…
With the Upper Tribunal suggesting that seeking a discount on a data protection monetary penalty notice and still appealing was to have the cake and eat it too, Paul Motion and Laura Irvine ask how you can lose the right to appeal a £500,000 data fine….
Two men who ran a company that tricked organisations into revealing personal details about customers were found guilty of breaching the Data Protection Act on 20 November….
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