May Wants Total Alignment With EU Data Rules After Brexit
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May proposed keeping Britain in total alignment with the European Union’s data-sharing rules after Brexit, something […]
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The Tories claim the data protection bill will make us safer. That’s not true.
The government’s growing store of personal details allows automatic adjudication on crucial aspects of our lives, writes Diane Abbott, the […]
GDPR not at odds with FCA Handbook, say UK authorities
New data protection laws are not at odds with regulatory requirements imposed on companies in the financial services sector, two […]
Company previously fined for making nuisance calls is prosecuted for failing to change its ways
A company that has already been fined for making nuisance calls has now been prosecuted in a criminal court for […]
EU Law Analysis: Data Retention is still here to stay, for now…
This post critically analyses the Court of Appeal’s judgment in Tom Watson and Others v Secretary of State for the […]
UK’s DPA publishes data security incident trends in Q3 2017
View the recent data security incidents that have been reported or notified to the UK’s Data protection authority – ICO, […]
UK: Patient privacy under threat from NHS Digital and Home Office data sharing agreement
NHS Digital has been sharing non-clinical patient information with the Home Office for immigration purposes. Read our blog looking at […]
Cryptojacking attack hits ~4,000 websites, including UK’s data watchdog
At first glance a CoinHive crypto miner being served by a website whose URL contains the string ‘ICO’ might not […]
UK’s FCA and DPA publish joint update on GDPR
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) have today published an update on the EU General […]
Strong encryption makes us all safer
The home secretary has made a hash – or what she would call “a hashtag” – of her efforts to […]
GDPR applicability to processors
The applicability rules of the GDPR now also include processors. The reason for this inclusion is that the GDPR provides […]
Many UK’s Data Protection Bill exemptions are expanded, unexplained and some permit unlawful processing
The political kerfuffle over the Government’s Brexit machinations makes it timely to point out that the European Commission’s negotiating document […]