The Information Commissioner has published his letter to the Secretary of State for Justice expressing his concern about the ICO’s ability to cope with the duties that would fall upon it if the data protection reform package proceeds in its current form…
Phil Lee considers the impact that Google Glass and other ‘smart glasses’ may have on privacy issues and calls for new thinking…
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Ian Wimbush asks how the trend towards BYOD is affecting law firms…
The EU data protection authorities are keen to see clear limits established on profiling and have published an advice paper on the topic…
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Will Sally Bercow’s costly defeat be enough to make people think twice about mindless tweeting? Would the court’s judgment have been different if the Defamation Act 2013 had applied? Will the allegations really be forgotten?…
A former manager of a health service based at a council-run leisure centre in Southampton has been prosecuted by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for unlawfully obtaining sensitive medical information relating to over 2,000 people. Paul Hedges took the information hoping to use the data for a new fitness company he was setting up. He…
An Irish court has granted an interlocutory injunction against Facebook and Google and required YouTube, Google, Facebook and a number of web sites to permanently remove a video and accompanying material which wrongly identified a man dodging a taxi fare and defamed him with a series of offensive comments…
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Spurred by the recent ICO survey of business awareness of the EU DP reform package, Laurence Eastham has an awful confession…
The Information Commissioner’s Office has released a report which highlights uncertainty on the implications and cost of EU data protection reform…
In the first SCL meeting in Dublin, held at Matheson, the topic was ‘Law and Regulation as we move to the Cloud’ John O’Connor reports on the event…