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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]
New Powers Put Privacy Laws To The Test
News Privacy advocates said that upcoming moves to broaden the government's electronic surveillance powers will put a strain on existing consumer-protection legislation such as the Data Protection Act (1998).
[June 12, 2002, 16:58]
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. An open letter from independent action group...
[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]
Answering The Compliance Challenge With A Holistic Security Compliance Tool
White Papers And more laws are under consideration focusing on customer data privacy. To make matters more complex, multiple regulations and laws drive financial accountability and customer data protection. It is presented in this paper as an essential element...
[May 27, 2005, 0:00]
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]
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. Congress approved the Video Privacy Protection Act in 1988 after a newspaper published Supreme Court nominee Robert...
[August 10, 2006, 9:30]
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. The IAB disputes the privacy arguments, saying that legislation such as the Data Protection Act and...
[November 13, 2001, 16:48]
Government 'bang To Rights' Over HMRC Fiasco
News Speaking on Wednesday at "Fine Balance", a conference in Westminster on privacy-enhancing technologies, Bamford said that some of the eight principles of the Data Protection Act, including that personal information be kept secure, had "clearly...
[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]
UK Customer Info Threatened By ETour Sell-off
News But the Office of the Information Commissioner -- formerly known as the Data Protection Commissioner -- confirms that because the database was acquired in the US, the settlement escapes British data protection laws regardless of the number of UK...
[May 25, 2001, 10:48]
EU Rejects US Opposition To Privacy Directive
News The transfer of consumer data in the US is currently self-regulated, whereas in Europe, fines can be imposed for contravening data protection laws. Mogg stated in a letter that he did not accept existing US data protection laws to meet the...
[May 8, 2001, 16:05]
On The Merits Of Data Retention
News But before we start debating privacy vs security, there's a larger issue at hand: these laws simply won't work. Data storage issues aside for the moment, communication logs like the EU's directives call for offer questionable protection from a...
[January 10, 2006, 14:35]
Google Defends Privacy Policy After EU Report
News The long-anticipated set of recommendations for how European data-protection laws should be applied to web-search services was published on Friday. The Google official also took issue with the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party's finding that...
[April 8, 2008, 8:47]
US To Keep EU Passenger Data For 15 Years
Blog The letter goes on to say that EU and US privacy laws are broadly similar, and don't lets worry about a little thing like differences in how the laws are implemented: I just have two words to say about how privacy laws are implemented in the US...
[July 26, 2007, 16:02]
Users To Get More Control Over .Net Passport
News Microsoft has reached an agreement with the European Union to implement a package of changes in the .Net Passport online authentication service to stop it running afoul of EU data protection laws. Get the latest on spy networks such as Echelon and...
[January 30, 2003, 17:26]
Outrage Over Privacy Violation In Cybercrime Treaty
News There's definitely not enough attention paid to the privacy implications of these provisions. David Sobel, general counsel of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a pro-privacy think tank in Washington is among the treaty's critics.
[December 14, 2000, 8:45]
