The Information Assurance Advisory Council has published a new guide, Director’s and Corporate Advisor’s Guide to Digital Investigations and Evidence. The guide is available for free as a download. Read an outline of the guide and access the download….
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The Information Commissioner is to be given tougher powers to regulate the Data Protection Act under proposals put forward by Justice Secretary Jack Straw on 24 November. The proposals are by way of response to the report of Professor Walport and Richard Thomas, the Information Commissioner….
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Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor has published his opinion in response to the EU-US final data sharing report….
The EU’s European Network and Information Security Agency has presented a new report with 13 recommendations on privacy and data protection. Tax break incentives, online subject access at zero cost, and comprehensive security breach notification law are among the recommendations….
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Each year we ask leading experts in IT law and the application of IT to legal practice to give us their predictions for the year and years ahead. Here is a preview of the predictions that will be published in December, drawn from some early responses….
Andrew Rigby looks at the likely legal issues surrounding the Government’s decision to terminate its contract with PA Consulting for breach of data security provisions in its contract….
A document which is highly critical in crucial respects has been adopted by SCL as its response to the Home Office Consultation on transposition of the Data Retention Directive. The response, drafted by the SCL Privacy and Data Protection Interest Group, points out a number of failures and inadequacies in the draft regulations….
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Andrew Katz highlights the lessons that might be learned from the conduct of commerce in Ancient Rome. He identifies the parallels between the role of slaves and the regulation of intelligent agents in the modern world….
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Mark Weston considers the many privacy and data protection issues associated with Google’s new Street View project….
The Home Office laid the final version of the Code ‘Data sharing for the Prevention of Fraud’ before Parliament on 6 October….