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Could employers ban personal email?

...legal liability, in light of a draft code of practice from the Data Protection Commission. The warning comes shortly after a tribunal ruling Monday, which... Read more

28 November, 2000 by Will Knight

News Burst: Could employers ban personal email?

...legal liability in light of the draft code of practice from the Data Protection Commission. The draft code recommends restrictions on work surveillance despite permission... Read more

28 November, 2000 by Will Knight

SNP and Plaid Cymru localise tech issues

...business and organisations if data protection was similarly devolved to a separate Data Protection Commission, who could ensure that breaches are taken seriously but also... Read more

16 April, 2010 by David Meyer

France battles on for data privacy

...that she will also be liasing with her former colleagues at the Data Protection Commission where necessary, so companies who fail to take their customers... Read more

24 October, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

Web sites fail to protect privacy

...also calls for an independent Internet privacy watchdog to be created. The Data Protection Commission has warned that it plans to crack down on Web... Read more

25 January, 2001 by Will Knight

One in five employers snoop on staff email

...emails of their staff without their consent, providing correspondents were informed. The Data Protection Commission warned that organisations should only monitor email when there is... Read more

17 January, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

News Roundup: To email or not to email?

...at work may become a thing of the past, thanks to the Data Protection Commission Unions call for email agreementFri, 17 Nov Union body worried... Read more

19 December, 2000 by ZDNet UK

Super-regulator Ofcom merges tasks

...body will consider complaints concerning invasions of privacy in cooperation with the Data Protection Commission. "We believe that the public needs to have a say... Read more

13 December, 2000 by Will Knight

Civil liberties groups condemn Big Brother proposals

...personal information should not be stored for longer than necessary and the Data Protection Commission has expressed concern over the storing information on all Internet... Read more

4 December, 2000 by Graeme Wearden and Will Knight

Cable company sacks six for email "misuse"

...and risking libel actions or complaints, or facing the wrath of the Data Protection Commission by spying on what their employees are writing. The Commission... Read more

29 November, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

3G phone ads could be illegal

...for companies investing in mobile technology -- may be illegal, according to the Data Protection Commission Thursday. Location-based advertising on broadband mobile phones would help... Read more

24 November, 2000 by Will Knight

Genie rubs users up the wrong way

...for example to another WAP site," he said. A spokesman for the Data Protection Commission said that in compromising users' data, Genie may also have... Read more

11 April, 2001 by Chris Holbrook

M-ads bad news, e-sign investigations and dot-gone...

...phone users - contravene the 1999 Telecommunications (Data Protection and Privacy) Regulations. The Data Protection Commission, which is examining the rules, believes the legislation could apply... Read more

24 November, 2000 by Jon Bernstein

M&S security scare: the lesson of the ATM

...the land. silicon.com is currently running a campaign to give the Data Protection Commission (DPC) the resources it needs to make online vendors take... Read more

20 October, 2000 by silicon.com staff

M&S error sparks fears of hack attack

...tailer in the land. silicon.com is currently campaigning to give the Data Protection Commission the resources necessary to enforce the protection of consumer data... Read more

20 October, 2000 by Pia Heikkila

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