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Business should 'use privacy laws, not abuse them'
News Privacy legislation need not hold back the deployment of CRM systems or other data-centric business plans, the information commissioner, Elizabeth France, told the CRM Summit in Warwickshire yesterday.
[January 31, 2002, 11:52]
Privacy vs protection: Police and the right to hack
News Shortly after the German government discussed amending its laws to allow police to hack suspects' computers, Finnish security company F-Secure surveyed Europe and the US, collecting 1,020 responses to the question: 'Should police hack?
[March 17, 2009, 16:06]
New powers put privacy laws to the test
News It's easy to say that there are already some laws in place to handle this, but in practice it's difficult to see those standards being applied," said Akdeniz. Privacy advocates said that upcoming moves to broaden the government's electronic...
[June 12, 2002, 16:58]
UK gov't rubber-stamps Phorm technology
News The UK government has said it is confident that future Phorm ad-serving technology will conform to UK privacy and data protection laws, but has not commented on the legality of past Phorm trials. The Commission letter addressed two trials by BT...
[September 16, 2008, 16:08]
Shut Amazon down, say privacy groups
News Online bookseller Amazon.co.uk has admitted it is unable to comply with UK data protection laws, according to civil rights campaign group Privacy International. On Monday US privacy groups wrote to the Federal Trade Commission complaining that...
[December 5, 2000, 8:13]
Amazon accused of breaking data protection laws
News Amazon's decision to share customer information with America has angered privacy campaigners owing to the absence of a definitive agreement on data protection laws between the US and European Union. Retail giant Amazon.co.uk has been accused of...
[September 19, 2000, 7:02]
US firms fight Euro data protection laws
News The GPA wants several significant changes to be made to EU privacy laws -- the simplification of the cross-border flow of data, possibly through industry self-regulation rather than legislation; the harmonisation of EU privacy regulation between...
[September 30, 2002, 16:29]
MPs call for one, simplified privacy law
News The report's authors said the diversity of privacy-related laws that currently exists makes it difficult to provide citizens with effective protection. Examples of UK laws that deal with privacy include the Data Protection Act and the Regulation of...
[October 16, 2009, 17:42]
Liberty Alliance releases ID spec guidelines
News Bjorn Wigforss, vice-president of Liberty Alliance and senior marketing manager at Nokia Technology Platforms, claims that complying with the data-protection and privacy laws around the world is a challenge and not a barrier to the goals of...
[April 14, 2005, 15:50]
EC acts against UK over data protection
News The European Commission has launched infringement proceedings against the UK, claiming the country is not sufficiently complying with European data-protection laws. In June, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), which has responsibility for...
[April 14, 2009, 16:53]
Privacy watchdog fears government super-database
News On Monday, Prime Minister Tony Blair hosted a seminar at Number 10 Downing Street to discuss areas of government policy including the "impact of data-sharing and privacy laws on [government] customer service" as part of an ongoing governmental...
[January 15, 2007, 16:15]
Tapes containing banking details go missing
Talkback The existence of the Data Protection laws in India- http://perry4law.blogspot.com/2005/05/mandates-of-wto.html The “enforcement” problem cannot be “bypassed” and “labeled” as inadequacy of data protection laws in India.
[July 8, 2005, 18:37]
AOL blunder sparks calls for new laws
News At the federal level, privacy laws tend to be created erratically, spurred by one well-publicised emotional anecdote after another. Representative Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, said on Wednesday that AOL's disclosure of the search habits of...
[August 10, 2006, 9:30]
UK failed to protect privacy over Phorm, says EC
News The Commission on Thursday went to the second stage of privacy infringement proceedings against the UK government, saying the government had not adequately enacted European privacy laws. I therefore call on the UK authorities to change their...
[October 29, 2009, 16:54]
Internet free speech threatened by data protection laws
News In a landmark test of how data protection laws apply to the Internet, financial information Web site International Interactive Investor was forced to hand over the names and IP addresses of contributors to its bulletin boards Sunday after...
[June 13, 2000, 17:05]
Number 10 will not investigate Phorm
News However, the ICO told ZDNet UK on Tuesday that while it could enforce the Data Protection Act, it had no remit to enforce other privacy laws, such as the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa).
[May 20, 2009, 16:25]
EC warns gov't over Phorm foot-dragging
News They led privacy campaigners, peers and groups such as the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) to assert that they contravened UK interception and data-protection laws. However, it did not comment on the legality of the past trials...
[February 12, 2009, 14:39]
EU votes to restrict cookies
News The MEPs said this is about data protection and privacy laws, but all a cookie does is store information about the computer," the spokesman said. If you use cookies to find personal information, well that is already illegal under existing laws.
[November 13, 2001, 16:48]
Government 'bang to rights' over HMRC fiasco
News Clearly on the facts available there appears to be a major contravention of data-protection laws. Bamford added that there should be tougher penalties for persistent or serious breaches of data laws. At present, the toughest legal penalty for the...
[November 21, 2007, 13:13]
Court rules for Web users in privacy case
News The appeal panel's decision could be a boon for privacy advocates, who have worried that laws such as the Patriot Act, which expanded the powers of law enforcement agencies in the wake of the 11 September attacks, gave police and other forces more...
[May 13, 2003, 12:26]
