Richard Morgan reports on the lecture by Professor Daniel J Solove, Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School, at a joint SCL/Oxford Internet Institute Meeting on 25 June 2009…
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The Article 29 Working Party has published an Opinion which focuses on how the operation of social networking sites can meet the requirements of EU data protection legislation. It is intended to provide guidance to SNS providers on the measures that need to be in place to ensure compliance with EU law….
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Stephen McCartney gives the ICO insider’s view on recent data protection developments and on the priorities for 2009 and beyond….
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The regulator of phone-paid services in the UK has issued a notice highlighting areas of concern…
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The Information Commissioner’s Office has published an updated guide for privacy impact assessments…
Another data leak, from an especially embarrassing source, should act as a pertinent reminder to SCL members that it can happen to anyone….
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SCL is in the process of deciding who to invite to give the next SCL Lecture, building on the success of March’s lecture from William Patry. Who would you pick?…
Does our notoriously blinkered approach mean that we will never ‘get’ EU law?…
The BSI launched a new BSI Standard for data protection on 2 June. The launch coincides with the publication of the BSI’s own survey findings that 1 in 5 of SMEs admit to breach of the data protection legislation….
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Almost one in five businesses has unwittingly breached the Data Protection Act at least once according to a survey conducted by the BSI. Of these, nearly half said they had breached the Act on several occasions and an additional 18% said they were not sure whether they had or not. A ‘breach’ could refer to…
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