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EU promises harmony on corporate data law

...EU commissioner Viviane Reding is aiming to harmonise Europe's approach to data protection laws. Photo credit: European Commission Reding is leading a major review... Read more

1 December, 2011 by David Meyer

ICO: Police authority breached Data Protection Act

Lancashire Police Authority broke data protection laws by publishing a complainant's personal information on its website... Read more

19 July, 2011

NHS unprepared for data law overhaul, say experts

...warned that the NHS is unprepared for an upcoming overhaul of European data protection laws, just as the government outlined plans to introduce more data... Read more

13 April, 2011 by Tom Espiner

UK interception law consultation excludes civil groups

...government to the European Court of Justice over poor implementation of European data protection laws. The consultation is mainly focused on bringing Ripa into line... Read more

29 November, 2010 by Jack Clark

Home Office consults on interception law

...tests of behavioural advertising service Phorm. The Home Office recognised that UK data protection laws such as Ripa do not adequately transpose European data laws... Read more

11 November, 2010 by Tom Espiner

MoJ calls for comments on data protection

...said: "We want to gather evidence and views on whether the current data-protection laws are working in light of social and technological changes since... Read more

7 July, 2010 by Kable

Joyent infrastructure cloud touches down in Europe

...German companies to use the service due to the country's stringent data protection laws, Tuck admitted. Like Amazon Web Services, Joyent Cloud is an... Read more

19 April, 2012 by Jack Clark

Google posed 69 privacy questions by EU

...that our new simple, clear and transparent privacy policy respects all European data protection laws and principles." Google said the policy "provides all the information... Read more

20 March, 2012

Passenger data accord breaches rights, say Greens

...Name Record (PNR) data of airline passengers flying from Europe breaches European data protection laws, according to a study conducted by Gerrit Hornung of the... Read more

14 March, 2012

German court threatens Facebook with privacy changes

...VZBV said in a statement, adding that Facebook had to respect European data protection laws. Facebook said it would decide on its "next steps" after... Read more

8 March, 2012

Gov?t and business to pool clients' personal data

...data momentarily allowing us to check for matches."Concerns about keeping to data protection laws hold many organisations back from pooling information, according to the... Read more

7 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Facebook gets privacy warning from Irish watchdog

...group 'Europe v Facebook' in August, which claimed Facebook had breached European data-protection laws. In October, the DPC conducted an audit of the social... Read more

22 December, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Data breach law: Companies facing fines of five per cent of turnover

...largest fine that can be imposed on an organisation for breaching UK data protection laws by the government's data protection watchdog, the Information Commissioner... Read more

6 December, 2011 by Nick Heath

Data thieves should face jail sentences, MPs urge

A parliamentary committee has called on the government to bring a measure into force that would let judges send data thieves to prison, and has asked for the ICO to be able to force businesses to undergo an audit Read more

27 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner

IBM puts platforms on SmartCloud

...using its cloud services from the German datacentre to comply with European data-protection laws. SCAS became available in beta on Wednesday and should become... Read more

12 October, 2011 by Jack Clark

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