April/May 2012
Volume 12, Issue 5

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News Items

• Working Party chimes in on Regulation's shortcomings
• Explosion in requirement for DPOs
• ICO defends fining policy and indicates what fines lie ahead
• London Marathon runners details shared
• Personal data definition adjusted in UK
• Government revives plan for greater data sharing between agencies

Articles

• The new Data Protection Regulation —further steps on the road towards adoption - Henry de Waele, Radboud University Nijmegen
• Obtaining consent for cookies - Eduardo Ustaran, Field Fisher Waterhouse
• The draft Data Protection Regulation — a new era for data processors? - Emma Burnettand Julia Graham, CMS Cameron McKenna LLP
• The new rules on using children’s data - Anita Bapat, Hunton & Williams
• Book review — ‘Privacy Impact Assessment’, by David Wright and Paul de Hert - Stephanie Pritchett, Pritchetts
• Developments in Data Protection and Privacy Laws in the Middle East - Fiona Tyas,Simmons & Simmons

March 2012
Volume 12, Issue 4

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News Items

• Obama Bill proposes privacy by ‘voluntary agreement’
• UK wants in on PNR data sharing
• Clarification of right to be forgotten
• 25 members of ubiquitous hacking group arrested
• Spain makes referral to ECJ on right to be forgotten
• Report of Dutch DPA highlights failings

Articles

• Implications of replacing the Data Protection Directive with a Regulation — a legal perspective -Henri de Waele, Radboud University Nijmegan
• New EU data protection sanctions — vital shock treatment or another fine mess? - Kate Brimsted, Herbert Smith LLP
• Data Protection reform — the French perspective - Thierry Bernard, Quadrige
• The draft Regulation — does every cloud have a silver lining? - Alexander Brown & Clare Adam, Simmons & Simmons LLP
• Hungary’s new data protection regime — is it full circle for Hungary? - Paul Byfield, EBRD
• Compulsory breach notification rules — benefit or burden? - Nick Graham & Majdi Silk, SNR Denton
• An audience with Viviane Reding - Rezzan Huseyin, PDP Journals

January/February 2012
Volume 12, Issue 3

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News Items

• Draft Regulation on track but Directorates may scupper plan
• OBA industry’s self-regulation plan ‘not adequate’, says Working Party
• UK regulator produces practical guidance on cookies
• Draft data protection and law enforcement Directive leaked
• Sat nav company cleared

Articles

• Formalising the role of the DPO — the practical consequences - Bridget Treacy, Hunton & Williams
• Extra territoriality and international transfers under the draft Regulation - Richard Jones, Clifford Chance
• The right to be forgotten - the fog finally lifts - Monika Kuschewsky, Van Bael & Bellis
• Defending a Notice of Intent - Liz Fitzsimons, Eversheds LLP
• ECJ rules on the limits to national variances - Monika Kuschewsky, Van Bael & Bellis

December 2011
Volume 12, Issue 2

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News Items

• Draft of EU Regulation leaked,changes are all-encompassing
• Three new fines from UK regulator, one the largest ever
• US company obtains approval for BCRs
• First Nordic-led BCR gets authorised
• UK body left data on 7,200 citizens in skip

Articles

• From consensual to compulsory — what to expect when the ICO comes knocking - Hazel Grant, Helen Rose and Amy Cullen, Bristows
• ICO’s briefing on the future of data protection in EU - Anita Bapat, Hunton & Williams
• Data Protection in the gaming industry — Part 2 - James Brunger, Amy Cullen and Scott Allardyce, Bristows
• Security breach notification — the German experience - Dr Jörg Hladjk, Hunton & Williams
• The rising in the East - Carolyn Bigg, Simmons & Simmons

October/November 2011
Volume 12, Issue 1

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News Items

• Publication of new law delayed
• Barnes & Noble obtain Borders customer list
• US Congress examines impact of EU privacy laws
• UK Cabinet Office publishes transparency review

Articles

• Commissioner's power to fine - eighteen months on - Francis Aldhouse, Bird & Bird
• Commissioner's evidence to the House of Commons - Analysis - Bridget Treacy and Anita Bapat, Hunton & Williams
• Who, me gov? How to ensure government transparency does not cost citizens their privacy - Kate Brimsted, Herbert Smith
• Data Protection in the gaming industry - James Brunger, Amy Cullen and Scott Allardyce, Bristows

September 2011
Volume 11, Issue 8

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News Items

• Online behavioural advertising framework lambasted
• FT pulls app following customer data dispute
• ICO publish first private sector audits
• Belgium simplifies BCRs procedure

Articles

• Clarifying consent - Eduardo Ustaran & Victoria Hordern, Field Fisher Waterhouse
• Privacy backlash - freedom campaigners' fantasy or imminent peril for business? - Peter Carey, Charles Russell
• One hack of a scandal - Nick Graham, SNR Denton UK LLP
• Don't shoot the (Blackberry) messenger - the technology of riots - Adrian Sim, Bristows

July/August 2011
Volume 11, Issue 7

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News Items

• EU’s challenge to industry: new standard for cookies by mid 2012
• All UK firms to face breach reporting
• Avoiding fines - the lowdown
• Housing sector should 'wake up' to data protection

Articles

• Handling data security breaches - is it time to revisit your procedures? - Kate Brimstead, Herbert Smith LLP
• Whistleblowing - avoiding the hot water when others let off steam - Stephanie Pritchett, Pritchetts
• Money laundering and data protection - where do we stand? - Richard Jones, Clifford Chance LLP
• Geolocation services on smart mobile devices - how to be compliant - Paul Gershlick, Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP

June 2011
Volume 11, Issue 6

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News Items

• Sony hacked to distraction
• Supreme Court rules that UK retains citizens’ DNA illegally
• Working Party gives strict opinion on geolocation data
• Hustinx says Retention Directive is illegal

Articles

• New cookie law: overcoming the challenges - Bridget Treacy, Partner, Hunton & Williams
• Article 29 Working Party Opinion on Smart Metering - Monika Kuschewsky and Laura De Boel, Van Bael & Bellis
• Anti-Bribery Law: reconciling the new Act with data protection - Bridget Treacy, Partner, Hunton & Williams
• Is Europe ready to take on a US style security breach notification law? - Anne Wilkes, ACW Privacy Consulting

April/May 2011
Volume 11, Issue 5

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News Items

• Play.com data breach
• Telcos fined
• Estate agent convicted
• EC to protect children’s data

Articles

• Cloud Computing - the data protection issues - David Cullen, William Fry
• How do employers protect data from theft by their own employees? - Stephanie Pritchett, Pritchetts
• RFID - the current state of play - Monika Kuschewsky and Laura De Boel, Van Bael & Bellis
• Book review: 'Cloud Computing - a practical introduction to legal issues' - Mark Watts, Bristows

March 2011
Volume 11, Issue 4

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News Items

• Israel formally added to 'adequate' list
• Council to tighten policy after loss of memory stick
• ICO encourages public to secure data online

Articles

• Article 29 Working Party clarifies the rules on the applicable data protection law – Monika Kuschewsky, Van Bael & Bellis
• The right to be forgotten: can legislation put the data genie back in the bottle? – Kate Brimsted, Herbert Smith
• Mandatory breach notifications for telecoms — what to expect and how to prepare? – Martijn ten Bloemendal, Hunton & Williams
• What does privacy in the workplace really mean in Europe? Part II – Anne Wilkes, ACW Privacy Consulting Ltd

January/February 2011
Volume 11, Issue 3

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News Items

• New privacy principles for Scotland
• Data security breach at The White House
• Cloud computing could provide €763bn to top five EU countries

Articles

• A new strategy for reform - the EU Data Protection Directive - Monika Kuschewsky and Laura De Boel, Van Bael & Bellis
• Another step closer to a harmonised data protection enforcement regime in Europe? Part 1 - Anne Wilkes, ACW Consulting Ltd
• How long should I keep data for? - Stephanie Pritchett, Pritchetts
• Privacy and data protection risks for IT programmes - a practitioner’s view - Jacqui Peace, independent Privacy Consultant
• Book review: 'The Law Society' - Duncan Lamont, Charles Russell LLP

December 2010
Volume 11, Issue 2

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News Items

• T-Mobile employee pleads guilty to data breach offence
• Internal data breach at PwC
• Council discloses personal data on planning department website

Articles

• Data Sharing – the ICO Consultation on the new Code of Practice – Nick Graham, SNR Denton
• Behavioural Advertising: time to tame the cookie? – Kate Brimsted, Herbert Smith
• Survey: Consent to the processing of children’s data across the EU – Nicola Fulford, Bristows

October/November 2010
Volume 11, Issue 1

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News Items

• European Commission takes UK to Brussels
• BT admits part in porn list leak
• Website blacklists deviant hotel guests

Articles

• Working Party Opinion on principle of accountability – new obligations for data controllers or old wine in new bottles? - Monika Kuschewsky, Van Bael & Bellis
• FAQs on the new Model Clauses – do they help? - Rob Corbet, Arthur Cox
• Data ownership in social networks – a very personal thing - Robert Bond, Speechly Bircham
• Data protection: back to basics - Part 9 - Peter Carey, Charles Russell

September 2010
Volume 10, Issue 8

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News Items

• Three Undertakings involving data security breaches
• Facebook introduces new location-revealing service
• Study highlights new ‘way in’ for hackers
• Telecoms companies under investigation in Hong Kong

Articles

• Does new Working Party Opinion spell end for online behavioural advertising? - Monika Kuschewsky, Van Bael & Bellis
• ICO’s personal information online Code of Practice - Helen Rose, Bristows
• Highlights from the Information Commissioner’s Annual Report - Cate Haywood, Hunton & Williams
• Data protection: back to basics - Part 8 - Peter Carey, Charles Russell
• Privacy pips pragmatism — so the end no longer justifies the means - Duncan Lamont, Charles Russell

July/August 2010
Volume 10, Issue 7

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News Items

• New Opinion on online behavioural advertising
• French DPA indicates sensitive data was caught by Wifi
• Twitter settles first of its kind case with FTC
• Commissioner writes to Unite over data protection registration

Articles

• Help! I’m being investigated by the ICO - Stephanie Pritchett, Pritchett's Law
• Interview with Jonathan Bamford
• Data protection considerations in company liquidation - Julian Gauld, Herbert Smith LLP
• Data protection: back to basics - Part 7 - Peter Carey, Charles Russell
• Ireland’s moves towards mandatory breach reporting - Colin Rooney, Arthur Cox

June 2010
Volume 10, Issue 6

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News Items

• Working Party writes to big three search engines
• Council signs Undertaking after losing childrens’ data
• ID scheme will be first to go
• Privacy a key focus in EU’s Digital Agenda

Articles

• Making a compelling case for investing in privacy - Kate Brimsted, Herbert Smith LLP
• Using privacy impact assessments - Stephanie Pritchett, Pritchett’s Law
• Location based services - a review of the regulatory framework - James Brunger, Bristows
• Data protection: back to basics - Part 6 - Peter Carey, Charles Russell

April/May 2010
Volume 10, Issue 5

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News Items

• ICO publishes three year plan
• Europe investigates 'tagging'
• EDPS wants privacy designed into DP law
• FOI guidance imminent
• And the award for best data protection goes to...

Articles

• Working Party confirms 'controller' and 'processor' distinction - Bridget Treacy, Partner, Hunton & Williams
• Data protection: back to basics - Part 5 - Peter Carey, Consultant, Charles Russell
• Data subjects rights - are they inadequate? - Liam Curren and Dr Jane Kaye, EnCoRe Project and University of Oxford
• Changes to German data protection law - Jörg Hladjk, Associate, Hunton & Williams
• Where fines might hit the hardest - James Castro-Edwards, Solicitor, Speechly Bircham LLP

March 2010
Volume 10, Issue 4

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News Items

• US links data breaches to file sharing
• 'Internet of things' draws closer
• Most trusted privacy measures revealed

Articles

• ICO's Guide to Data Protection - easy as ABC? - Suzanne Rodway, Barclays
• Rise of biometric data sharing - but who is looking after data subjects' rights? - Nick Graham and Tristan Jonckheer, Denton Wilde Sapte
• Data protection: back to basics - Part 4 - Peter Carey, Data Protection Consultant
• New controller to processor model clauses - the verdict - Eduardo Ustaran, Field Fisher Waterhouse
• Handling access requests - lessons from the Access Rights Index - Thierry Bernard, Quadrige
• Privacy cases - has John Terry dropped Mosley's baton? - Mark Watts and Justin Costley, Bristows

January/February 2010
Volume 10, Issue 3

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News Items

• Mortgage company signs Undertaking
• Working Party issues ‘Future of Privacy’ roadmap
• Giant database goes live

Articles

• Mortgage company signs Undertaking
• Working Party issues ‘Future of Privacy’ roadmap
• Giant database goes live Articles
• Fines for data protection breaches - the new regime - Richard Jones, Clifford Chance LLP
• Data protection: back to basics - Part 3 - Peter Carey, Charles Russell
• Use of violent warning markers... under attack? - Mark Watts, Bristows
• New EU cookie rule - a practical way forward - Eduardo Ustaran, Field Fisher Waterhouse
• Under the spotlight: police retention of conviction data - Bridget Treacy and Anthea Terlegas, Hunton & Williams
• Data security Part 2 - ten ways to promote data security best practices - Richard Hollis, Orthus

December 2009
Volume 10, Issue 2

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News Items

• ICO produces new Guide on Data Protection
• Expert recommends acting now over cookie law
• Queen gets tough on paparazzi in royal row
• US sued over failure to specify use of data

Articles

• Data protection: back to basics - Part 2 - Peter Carey, Charles Russell
• Anonymisation and pseudoanonymisation of personal data - Nick Graham and Sean Crowley, Denton Wilde Sapte
• New draft international proposal standards - a welcome proposal - Monika Kuschewsky, Van Bael & Bellis
• Data security Part 1 - five factors leading to data compromise - Richard Hollis, Orthus
• US online behavioural advertising - the changing landscape - Julie O’Neill, Morrison & Foerster

October/November 2009
Volume 10, Issue 1

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News Items

• Pharmacy firm's data breach escalating
• Italian bullying video case - update
• FBI snooping to continue?
• CEO penalised for being uncooperative

Articles

• Data protection: back to basics - Part 1 - Peter Carey, Charles Russell
• Contracting out of data protection responsibilities - Richard Jones, Clifford Chance LLP
• Data security issues in the NHS - Jackie Gray, Dickenson Dees LLP
• Standard contractual clauses for data transfers outside of the EEA - Rob Corbet and Úna Ní Mhurchú, Arthur Cox
• Israel’s data protection reform - Israeli Ministry of Justice "Schoffman" Committee
• Book Review, 'Data Protection - A Practical Guide to UK and EU Law' - Bridget Treacy, Hunton & Williams

September 2009
Volume 9, Issue 8

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News Items

• Smartphone applications track users' locations
• Google to address Swiss concerns
• IRS brings in the heavies for tax scour
• Facebook accepts Canadian privacy recommendations

Articles

• Security breach notification in Europe - Kristof Van Quathem, Covington & Burling LLP
• Online social networking - keeping up with the reality - Monika Kuschewsky, Van Bael & Bellis
• Secondary uses of NHS data - occupational health services - Mark Watts and James Brunger, Bristows
• Secure the pearly gates, not the cloud - Alf Pilgrim, Clearswift

July/August 2009

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News Items

• Power to fine - not until next year
• Swiss block UBS data handover
• Unmasking of obscene hacking operations
• Computer virus frenzy at the NHS

Articles

• ICO’s new Code on Privacy Notices - Nick Graham and Simon Elliot, Denton Wilde Sapte
• RAND - a report worth reading to the end! - Bridget Treacy, Hunton & Williams
• A new Information Commissioner … but still no fines - Grant Campbell, Brodies
• Data protection law in Russia - Dan Guildford and Ekaterina Bekker, Dewey & LeBoeuf

June 2009
Volume 9, Issue 6

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News Items

• BCS launches 'data protection equivalent of Highway Code'
• EU sues Sweden
• Germany to get Street View despite privacy complaints
• Resignation of rail chief after repeated snooping

Articles

• Secondary uses of personal data in the NHS - Part 1 - Mark Watts and James Brunger, Bristows
• Surveillance at the workplace - how to avoid the pitfalls - Monika Kuschewsky, Van Bael & Bellis
• Richard Thomas - the expansive years - Peter Carey, PDP
• Privacy & matrimonial self help - Robin Bynoe, Charles Russell

April/May 2009
Volume 9, Issue 5

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News Items

• Fools rush in to hiding behind DPA, says ICO
• 19,000 UK credit card details accessible
• EU: ‘security capabilities vary vastly’
• Stronger penalties for peeping toms

Articles

• BSI - a standard approach to preventing security breaches? - Nick Graham and Simon Elliott, Denton Wilde Sapte
• A fair processing notice by any other name ..., by Suzanne Rodway, Barclays
• US pre-trial discovery — reconciled with European data protection law? - Monika Kuschewsky, Van Bael & Bellis
• Dirty work — criminal aspects of bin trawling - Ashley Roughton, Hogarth Chambers, and D’yann Heward-Mills, Linklaters
• Spam Asia — Part II - Anju Malik and Lewis Ho, Simmons & Simmons

March 2009
Volume 9, Issue 4

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News Items

• PC passes force data to friend
• New survey says jobs at risk = data at risk
• Proper supervision needed for data mining
• Actor bedding models suspects unauthorised access

Articles

• How far are we protected from ourselves? - Mark Watts, Bristows
• Power to fine research research - the results - PDP news team
• Navigating the data breach minefield: strategies - Bridget Treacy, Hunton & Williams
• Spam Asia — Part 1 - Carolyn Bigg and Damien Bailey, Simmons & Simmons

January/February 2009
Volume 9, Issue 3

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News Items

• New IC says role is at heart of debates
• New NAI Principles just don’t cut it?
• Coming to a cab driver near you?
• College kids enlisted in data gathering

Articles

• Privacy and the workplace - Gabriella Wright, Employment Specialist
• Cloud computing - data protection concerns unwrapped - Bridget Treacy, Hunton & Williams and Paula Bruening, Centre for Information Policy Leadership
• Data protection law in Dubai - Nick Graham and Michael Loffler, Denton Wilde Sapte

December 2008
Volume 9, Issue 2

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News Items

• EDPS on patients' rights
• The longer arm of Facebook
• Disastrous disposal
• Candidates to confess

Articles

• Controllers vs. processors - useful distinctions, or distracting labels? - Kate Brimsted, Herbert Smith
• The dangerous disparities with privacy policies - Ben Taylor, Ernst & Young
• Paying the piper, calling the tune - Gabriella Wright, Employment law specialist
• Whistleblower hotlines and data protection - Richard Jones, Clifford Chance and Josephine Warren, BBC World News

October/November 2008
Volume 9, Issue 1

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News Items

• Binding Corporate Rules – mutual recognition
• WiFi no longer secure
• Orgy goes to Strasbourg
• US plough ahead with Sat-Surveillance despite privacy issues

Articles

• Dealing with staff data breaches – Gabriella Wright, Employment Specialist
• The T5 fiasco – what does it tell us about the future of biometrics and data protection? - Nick Graham and Michael Loffler, Denton Wilde Sapte
• How to combat identity theft in the corporate world – an essential guide - Peter Wood First Base Technologies
• The Commissioner’s keynote speech – highlights, PDP News Team

September 2008
Volume 8, Issue 8

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News Items

• Draft 2008 Electronic Communications Regulations
• Students subject to scanners
• Fingerprinting of passengers inevitable
• Unsecured data stick puts Gastronuts kids at risk

Articles

• How to win workers’ trust – a guide to applying the core Principles – Employment Specialist, Gabriella Wright
• Data Sharing Review – raising the spectre of tougher enforcement in the UK – Bridget Treacy, Partner at Hunton & Williams
• Max Mosley triumphs – but are the damages done? – Nicola Russell, Associate at Bristows
• The devil and the deep blue sea – US & EU discussions on sharing personal data – Richard Jones, Director of Data Privacy at Clifford Chance

July/August 2008
Volume 8, Issue 7

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News Items

• ICO serves HMRC and MOD with Enforcement Notices
• An Annual Report and a birthday
• Data Sharing Review
• UK on verge of de facto privacy law?

Articles

• e-Discovery and EU privacy laws - Part II
• Information security and lessons from HMRC - an overview of the Poynter and IPCC reports
• Transferring employee data - a clearer picture?
• The changing face of data security law - Part II
• Impact of the CSA judgment - more questions than answers?

June 2008
Volume 8, Issue 6

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News Items

• ICO – new powers to fine
• Database to vet dishonest employees
• Central database proposed for draft Bill
• Banking sector urged to change attitude by FSA
• BERR Report released

Articles

• The ICO’s new power to fine – the shape of things to come? – Kate Brimsted, Herbert Smith
• The changing face of data security law – Stewart Room, Field Fisher Waterhouse
• eDiscovery and EU privacy laws – Dan Cooper, Covington & Burling
• Safe Harbor, Safe Hands – Mark Watts, Bristows
• Book review: Data Protection Law and Practice – Bridget Treacy, Hunton & Williams

April/May 2008
Volume 8, Issue 5

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News Items

• Government data loss ‘symptomatic of lax standards’
• HSBC likely to be fined or loss of 370,000 customers details
• BT investigated over Phorm complaints
• S.55 DPA custodial sentences “on ice”
• Six month time limit set for retaining online search records

Articles

• Implications of Ezsias case for subject access: proportionality may apply to searches of data - Gary Brooks, Data Protection Consultant
• Industry viewpoint – RFID technology development and data protection – Nigel Clarke, Imation
• Is Israeli data protection law “adequate” under Article 25? – Omer Tene, Legal Consultant and Ministry of Justice Committee
• Outsourcing – data protection considerations – Annette Orange, McCann FitzGerald

March 2008
Volume 8, Issue 4

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News Items

• New CCTV code of practice published by ICO
• Ban on taking electronic devices outside the workplace
• Children’s qualifications online throughout adult life
• Government could face £7.5 billion compensation
• Solicitor pleads guilty to data protection offence

Articles

• Comparing the US and EU approach to employee privacy Miriam Wugmeister and Ann Bevitt, Morrison & Foerster
• The ICO gets tough on M&S - Suzanne Rodway, Barclays
• Privacy regulation in Australia: current law and proposed changes - Jillian Brewer, Banking and Financial Services Ombudsman
• Data retention requirements for communication service providers - Victoria Russell and Joanna Allen, Charles Russell
• Less data sharing, more data protection - Ben Winslade, Bristows

January/February 2008
Volume 8, Issue 3

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News Items

• Justice Committee reports on Commissioner’s powers
• Carphone Warehouse issued with ICO Enforcement Notice
• British drivers’ details lost in the US
• Microsoft’s Big Brother software pending
• 2008 to be the year of data protection

Articles

• Dawn raids, unlimited fines and senior executive accountability - proposed changes to UK data breach laws - Bridget Treacy, Hunton & Williams
• Online behavioural advertising guidelines to be issued in the US - Julie O’Neill, Kelley Drye Collier Shannon
• Information Commissioner’s new Privacy Impact Assessment Handbook - Louise Townsend, Pinsent Masons
• ICO guidance on information sharing - Usha Jagessar, DLA Piper
• A look at 2007 from the PDP Editorial Board, and a glimpse of what’s to come in 2008 - PDP Editorial Board Members

December 2007
Volume 8, Issue 2

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News Items

• 25 million affected by ‘deeply disturbing’ HMRC data breach
• Online black market for bank details
• FCO undertaking after website security failures
• Doctors may be fined for losing laptops
• ID scheme on rocks?

Articles

• Who’s looking at your medical information? - Stephen Hinde, BUPA
• Determining ‘personal data’ - a case of believing six impossible things before breakfast? - Kate Brimsted, Herbert Smith
• Monitoring staff communications - the latest on privacy rights - Gabriella Wright, employment specialist
• Book review, 'Employee Privacy: Guide to US and International Law' - PDP Review Team

October/November 2007
Volume 8, Issue 1

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News Items

• Newly awarded access to phone records too wide?
• German Commissioner criticises Google
• Search engines not good practice for recruitment
• Blackberry data - ripe for interception?

Articles

• Why the Data Protection Act makes good business sense – Suzanne Rodway, Barclays Bank
• Israeli data protection law:
• constitutional, statutory and regulatory reform – Omer Tene, Ministry of Justice Committee
• Current data protection issues for financial institutions – Part 4: the data protection issues that keep the financial services sector awake at night – Bridget Treacy, Hunton & Williams
• Ireland – recent developments – Rob Corbet, Arthur Cox

September 2007
Volume 7, Issue 8

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News Items

• Trojan breach at Monster.com leads to phishing emails
• UK launches CCTV code
• Microsoft takes lead in online privacy
• Bush signs surveillance bill
• Consultation on right to consent

Articles

• Redefining personal data – can the opinion live up to the hype? – Dan Cooper, Covington & Burling
• Current data protection issues for financial institutions – Part 3: data breach – the changing regulatory landscape and its potential impact for financial institutions – Bridget Treacy, Hunton & Williams
• IT compliance and IT security – Part 3: How are risks addressed in Europe – Jörg Hladjk, Hunton & Williams
• Data protection in corporate transactions – Louise Townsend, Pinsent Masons

July/August 2007
Volume 7, Issue 7

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News Items

• Art 29 Working Party redefines ‘personal data’
• ICO’s Annual Report – executives urged to raise their game
• Orange and Littlewoods ‘named and shamed’ by ICO
• Consumer privacy issues for outsourced work to India - Privacy problems for Facebook networking phenomenon

Articles

• Current data protection issues for financial institutions – Part 2: global businesses and global data flows: how the financial services sector is challenged by global data protection compliance in emerging jurisdictions – Bridget Treacy, Hunton & Williams
• Hello! Waves goodbye to 1m+ in celebrity rights legal reversal – Kate Brimsted, Herbert Smith
• Record fine for Big Brother in Spain – Victoria Russell and Jose M Saras, Charles Russell

June 2007
Volume 7, Issue 6

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News Items

• CCTV surveillance is now at extreme proportions
• Google - global privacy threat?
• Euro countries to share crime data
• Bowing to US pressure for passenger data
• Big Brother fine confirmed

Articles

• Current data protection issues for financial institutions – Part 1: the ‘controller’ v ‘processor’ dilemma – Bridget Treacy, Hunton & Williams
• Smith – the importance of file headers – Ashley Roughton, Hogarth Chambers
• US privacy developments – Julie O’Neill, Kelley Drye Collier Shannon

April/May 2007
Volume 7, Issue 5

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News Items

• Damages awarded against email marketer
• ICO names and shames
• World’s biggest data theft
• American Express plans to track consumers
• Emails - same as telephone calls for privacy rights

Articles

• Durant revisited - will the definition of personal data be changed? - Christine O’Neill, Brodies
• Banks put on notice by ICO - Ayesha Bramwell, Shepherd and Wedderburn
• Johnson v Medical Defence Union - the final judgment - Ashley Roughton, Hogarth Chambers
• IT compliance and IT security - Part 2 - Jörg Hladjk, Hunton & Williams

March 2007
Volume 7, Issue 4

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News Items

• Bank fined £1m for data security breach
• Electronic health data - new regulation
• Elle Macpherson privacy breach
• ASA upholds complaint over opt-out statement in text message
• Bank sues retailer over data loss

Articles

• IT compliance and IT security - Part 1: Why is it necessary to comply with legal requirements? - Jörg Hladjk, Hunton & Williams
• When disclosing references is not child’s play - Kate Brimsted, Herbert Smith
• The secondary use of Council Tax data - Louise Townsend, Pinsent Masons
• Data protection developments in Ireland - Rob Corbet, Arthur Cox

January/February 2007
Volume 7, Issue 3

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News Items

• European Central Bank slammed on data transfers
• Paris incensed by sex and medical revelations
• Police dubbed ‘absolutely ridiculous’ by Lord Chancellor
• 10% of workers sacked after drug testing
• Irish schools adopt fingerprinting

Articles

• International corruption and data protection – Bret Campbell, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
• Privacy – the latest issues – Ashley Roughton, Hogarth Chambers
• E-Privacy Regulations – the ICO’s revised guidance – Suzanne Rodway, Barclays Bank
• US privacy update – Julie O’Neill, Kelley Drye Collier Shannon

December 2006
Volume 7, Issue 2

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News Items

• UK Commissioner names and shames media companies
• Crackdown on private detectives and those who instruct them
• The States bugged Diana
• More Foxtons complaints - Microsoft brings action under the Electronic Privacy Directive

Articles

• Life in surveillance society – new challenges for DPAs and new challenges for business - Bridget Treacy, Hunton & Williams
• Is the Data Protection Directive suitable for today’s global economy? - Ayesha Bramwell, Shepherd and Wedderburn
• YouTube - the privacy challenges - Stewart Room, Rowe Cohen Solicitors

October / November 2006
Volume 7, Issue 1

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News Items

• European companies must notify security breaches
• Foreign outsourcing to be made easier
• Data disappears on one million citizens
• Charity databases stolen
• US to track negative overseas press
• Starbucks loses staff details
• Journalists to be prosecuted

Articles

• Data security breaches: is Europe heading for US standards of openness? - Kate Brimsted, Herbert Smith
• Collecting employee information - Piers Leigh-Pollitt, Osborne Clarke
• US privacy law update - Julie O’Neill, Kelley Drye Collier Shannon

September 2006
Volume 6, Issue 8

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News Items

• CIA unlawfully probes EU citizens banking transactions
• UK government to press ahead with data sharing
• AOL publishes personal searches
• NatWest - inadequate data disposal
• AT&T security breach

Articles

• The risks of WiFi: Part II - Robin Bynoe, Charles Russell
• The role of the data sub-processor - Ayesha Bramwell, Shepherd+ Wedderburn
• Data protection and TUPE 2006: what is the state of the law in the UK? - Gabriella Wright

July/August 2006
Volume 6, Issue 7

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News Items

• Website operator issued with enforcement proceedings
• UK to impose prison sentences for data misuse
• Spam up in Ireland
• DVLA data sales to cease

Articles

• The risks of WiFi: Part I - Robin Bynoe, Charles Russell
• Transferring customer data after the Green Thumb case - Jimmy Desai, Tarlo Lyons
• The costs of non-compliance with data protection law - Louise Townsend & Victoria Southern, Pinsent Masons
• The ICO's Annual Report - PDP Team

June 2006
Volume 6, Issue 6

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News Items

• United States agreement on passenger data overturned
• Commissioner pushes for prison sentence for data crime
• Privacy case settles for $1.6 million

Articles

• Subject access and third party rights - Louise Townsend, Pinsent Masons
• Privacy law in Turkey - Mehtap Yoldirim, Cacmak Avukatlik Burosu
• Passenger Name Records: the ECJ decision - Hazel Grant, Bird & Bird
• US privacy law update - Julie O’Neill, Kelley Drye Collier Shannon

April/May 2006
Volume 6, Issue 5

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News Items

• Medical data and information on children - key future issues
• Johnson - failure to get compensation at trial
• Euro citizens must be more careful with data
• Guidance on sale of customer databases
• Merrill Lynch fined for failure to produce emails

Articles

• Are Binding Corporate Rules Ready for 'Prime Time - Dr Mark Watts, Bristows
• Access to Personal Information held by a Public Authority Part II - Andrew Sharpe, Charles Russell
• Marketing Part IV - Rob Sumroy and Matthew Price, Slaughter and May
• Interview with Philippe Renaudière, Head of Data Protection at the European Commission

March 2006
Volume 6, Issue 4

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News Items

• Durant alleges human rights breach
• Gordon Brown hails biometric world
• New electoral registration system
• Conviction for unlawfully obtaining information
• Exchange of EU law enforcement data

Articles

• Workers' Subject Access requests - Gabriella Wright, Consultant
• Marketing, Part III - Rob Sumroy and Richard J Smith, Slaughter and May
• Legitimising Foreign Outsourcing - Sarah Ahmad, Elizabeth Walton and Jonathan Kirsop, Allen & Overy

January/February 2006
Volume 6, Issue 3

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News Items

• Call for stricter approach to foreign data transfers
• De Vere hotel in data blunder
• Rich lists pose data risks
• IC guidance on employee references
• Solicitor's private detective fined
• Delay to ID cards
• Deaths blamed on data laws

Articles

• Access to Personal Information held by a Public Authority Part I - Andrew Sharpe, Charles Russell
• Marketing Part II, Data Protection and Direct Marketing - Rob Sumroy, Slaughter and May
• Data Retention - Ayesha Bramwell, Shepherd & Wedderburn

December 2005
Volume 6, Issue 2

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News Items

• Commissioner seeks new and wider powers with telecomms priority
• Durant refused leave to appeal
• Motorists' information for sale
• Commissioner to push data protection audits
• Banks to share loans data
• CSA demands council tax data
• Information Commissioner's Office issues'good practice' notes

Articles

• Fair Collection Notices Slim Down - Eduardo Ustaran, Field Fisher Waterhouse
• Marketing Part I, Data Protection and Direct Marketing - Rob Sumroy, Slaughter and May
• Irish Law - Some Recent Changes - Rob Corbet, Arthur Cox Dublin
• Interview with the Australian Privacy Commissioner, Karen Curtis - PDP Team

October/November 2005
Volume 6, Issue 1

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News Items

• Durant case in breach of European Directive
• Johnson v MDU trial imminent
• Smith takes case to European Court
• Tesco accelerates data harvesting
• Banks - outsourcing concerns
• Update to DP Directive delayed

Articles

• Medical data and privacy, Martin Soames and Usha Jagessar, DLA Piper
• Data protection in the insurance industry Part V, Bridget Treacy, Barlow Lyde & Gilbert
• Indian law - a semblance of data privacy, Salman Waris, Fox Mandal
• Manual data exemption - 2007 is looming, Vinod Bange and Mark Hucks, Addleshaw Goddard

Contents
Volume 5, Issue 8

September 2005

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News Items

• Recruitment agency fines £2,000 for non-registration
• UK's growing debt mountain blamed on poor data compliance
• Accountants in Commissioner’s sights
• Omission takes action against Austria and Germany
• Electoral register should be 'opt-in'
• Estate agents in data breaches
• Online casino convicted of spamming

Articles

• Is Durant compatible with Linqvist? Stewart Room, Rowe Cohen
• Data protection in the insurance industry Part IV, Bridget Treacy, Barlow Lyde & Gilbert
• Database right falls at the first! Angus Murray and Piers Strickland, Charles Russell
• Interview with the Northern Ireland Commissioner, Data Protection Team
• US Privacy Update, Julie O’Neill, Collier Shannon Scott PLLC

Contents
Volume 5, Issue 7

July/August 2005

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News Items

• Employment Code released
• Commissioner slams identity card register proposals
• NCC calls for more rigorous DP law and enforcement
• Latest data breach - Mastercard
• UK health records - plans for centralised database
• India outsourcing security concerns
• Consumer credit crises - banks seek amendment to DPA

Articles

• The New Employment Practices Code - Piers Leigh-Pollitt, Osborne Clarke
• DP in the Insurance Industry Part III - Bridget Treacy, Barlow Lyde Gilbert
• The Legality of Recording Telephone Conversations - Jessica Hendrie-Liano and Paul Manwaring, Beachcroft Wansbroughs
• US Privacy Update - Julie O'Neill, Collier Shannon Scott PLLC

Contents
Volume 5, Issue 6

June 2005

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News Items

• Commissioner to target inadequate privacy notices
• Zeta-Jones - privacy breach confirmed by Court of Appeal
• Loyalty card regulation
• Conditional discharge for selling celebrity data
• Calls to regulate transfer of music data over the Internet
• Using RFID to track prisoners
• France rules on employer's use of biometric data
• Communications data retention

Articles

• DP in the Insurance Industry Part II - Bridget Treacy, Barlow Lyde Gilbert
• The Re-use of Public Sector Information - Anna-Marie Harty and Christopher Rees, Herbert Smith
• The European DP Supervisor's First Year - Rosemary Jay, Pinsent Masons
• All's Fair in Love, War and Celebrity Exclusives - Kate Brimsted, Herbert Smith

Contents
Volume 5, Issue 5

April/May 2005

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News Items

• Political cold-calling unlawful
• Video surveillance in the home
• UK directors seek anonymity as protection from extremists
• Spy mannequins
• Irish spam
• Binding corporate rules - checklist for applications
• Citibank up to its old tricks

Articles

• DP in the Insurance Industry Part I - Bridget Treacy, Barlow Lyde & Gilbert
• Privacy Best for Elizabeth Jagger - Marcus Turle, Field Fisher Waterhouse
• Recent Developments in Data Security Law in US - Lynne Barr & Jacqueline Klosek, Goodwin Procter LLP
• Blackstones' Guide to the FOI Act 2000, book review - Stewart Room, Rowe Cohen
• US Privacy Update - Julie O'Neill, Collier Shannon Scott PLLC

Contents
Volume 5, Issue 4

March 2005

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News Items

• Lloyds' case considers meaning of "data" within DPA 1998
• Is political cold-calling lawful?
• RFID extended to students
• OIC to keep notification receipts
• New credit card guidelines
• EU working party reports on Member States' notification regimes

Articles

• Binding Corporate Rules - making it happen - Eduardo Ustaran, Field Fisher Waterhouse
• "Once processed, always processed" - Principle Explained - Ashley Roughton, Hogarth Chambers
• Regulated Industries - Requests for Information – - Sally Jones, Hammonds
• Smith v Lloyds TSB Bank plc Case Report
• US Privacy Update - Julie O'Neill, Collier Shannon Scott PLLC

Contents
Volume 5, Issue 3

January/February 2005

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News Items

• EC approves "model contract" for data exports
• EU committed to beefing up enforcement of data protection
• ASA upholds email complaint
• Italian telephone directories
• Health Minister promotes NHS database
• Tesco boycott over "spychip" privacy concerns
• New database for Euro crime

Articles

• Alternative Standard Clauses for International Data Transfers - Eduardo Ustaran, Field Fisher Waterhouse
• Implementing Codes of Conduct - the Novartis Case – - Eva Wong, Coudert Brothers
• DP Implications of Data Rooms Pt II - Jessica Hendrie-Liano and Emma Bate, Beachcroft Wansbroughs
• US Privacy Update - Julie O'Neill, Collier Shannon Scott PLLC

Contents
Volume 5, Issue 2

December 2004

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News Items

• Johnson accesses documents under Civil Procedure Rules
• ECHR rules covert recording of conversations by police unlawful
• Spammer jailed for 9 years
• Durant to make FOI request for FSA files
• Data breach by Cahoot and Morgan
• Queen's speech

Articles

• DP Compliance for HR directors Part IV - Piers Leigh-Pollitt, Osborne Clarke
• Binding Corporate Rules - making them work - Eduardo Ustaran, Field Fisher Waterhouse
• DP Implications of Data Rooms - Jessica Hendrie-Liano and Emma Bate, Beachcroft Wansbroughs
• Durant and FOI - Gabriella Wright and Nick Boyd, Charles Russell
• US Privacy Update - Julie O'Neill, Collier Shannon Scott PLLC

Contents
Volume 5, Issue 1

October/November 2004

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News Items

• "Surveillance society" looms
• New French DP law
• Guantanamo detainee's family kept in dark
• Spam best practice rules
• Saudi Arabia bans camera phones

Articles

• Data protection for HR directors Part III - Piers Leigh-Pollitt
• Email marketing Regulation in Europe - Eduardo Ustaran
• French decision on spy software - Eva Wong
• Trade union challenge to outsourcing - Gary Brooks
• US privacy law update - Cindy Burnes

Contents
Volume 4, Issue 8

September 2004

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News Items

• EU investigates UK data laws
• Offshore outsourcing attacked by unions
• Bichard report - DPA blameless
• FOI guidance
• Mexicans use chips to foil kidnappers

Articles

• Data protection for charities Part V - Sasha Foreman
• Data protection for HR directors Part II - Piers Leigh-Pollitt
• Developments in privacy law - Alexandra Wenderoth

Contents
Volume 4, Issue 7

July/August 2004

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News Items

• EU investigates UK data laws
• Fines for scam calls and texts
• Sebastian Coe - privacy confusion
• Icelandic DNA project unconstitutional
• Spy in your email

Articles

• Data protection for charities Part IV - >Sasha Foreman
• Data protection for HR directors Part I - Piers Leigh-Pollitt
• Subject access requests post-Durant - Gabriella Wright
• Privacy - positive aspects - Eduardo Ustaran
• US privacy update - Cindy Burnes

Contents
Volume 4, Issue 6

June 2004

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News Items

• Naomi Campbell wins privacy case
• TPS rules extended to business
• Identity cards - draft Bill
• E-privacy - Commission acts against Member States

Articles

• Direct marketing/host mailing - Louise Howe
• Data protection for charities Part III - Sasha Foreman
• "Data Protection Strategy" - book review - Kate Brimsted
• "Data Protection - Practical Guide" – book review - Marcus Turle
• Google mail - privacy implications – Cindy Burnes

Contents
Volume 4, Issue 5

April/May 2004

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News Items

• Harsh new email rules shock marketers
• Medical research threatened by data protection
• Working Party considers use of genetic data
• Biggest data leak ever
• Commissioner outlines corporate plan

Articles

• DP and marketing - global organisations - Alison Fortescue
• Data protection for charities Part II - Sasha Foreman
• Email marketing - new rules - PDP Team
• RFID technology and data protection - Eduardo Ustaran

Contents
Volume 4, Issue 4

March 2004

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News Items

• Durant causes rethink of DP law
• German Commissioner approves binding corporate rules
• Identity cards - impact assessment demanded
• UK fines US company for sending spam

Articles

• Subject access requests - Kate Brimsted
• Data protection for charities Part I - Sasha Foreman
• Employment Code - workers' health - Neisha Glynternick
• Data sharing in the public sector - Jessica Hendrie-Liano and Anne Crofts

Contents
Volume 4, Issue 3

January/February 2004

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News Items

• Durant - court dramatically restricts subject access right
• Employment health data code published
• Guernsey safe for data exports
• DPA blamed for Soham deaths
• Visitors to the US - fingerprints and photographs

Articles

• Websites and data protection - the Lindqvist case - Liz Brownsdon
• Ireland - the new data protection law - Rob Corbett and Professor Robert Clark
• Privacy Cases 2003 - Monica Bhogal
• The US CAN-SPAM Act 2003 - Cindy Burnes

Contents
Volume 4, Issue 2

December 2003

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News Items

• New email marketing rules - Commissioner publishes guidance
• Zeta-Jones gets £14,600 compensation
• Marks and Spencer adopts RFID technology
• Diana car crash privacy trial
• Carphone Warehouse - adverse ruling

Articles

• Privacy & Electronic Communications - Eduardo Ustaran
• Solicitors’ firms - data controllers or data processors? - Sue Cullen
• Freedom of Information in Practice - Part IV - Cinzia Biondi
• The use of photographs for marketing or advertising purposes - Elizabeth Brownsdon

Contents
Volume 4, Issue 1

October/November 2003

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News Items

• New email marketing laws
• Blunkett publishes new snoopers code
• FTSE 100 companies - data compliance poor
• Nottingham - data protection prosecution
• Marketing email breached ASA code

Articles

• The 2003 Privacy Regulations - Advice for businesses in the interim period and beyond - Jessica Hendrie-Liano
• How the CAP Code regulates marketing by email - Louise Townsend
• Freedom of Information in Practice - Part III - Cinzia Biondi
• Communications data - access and retention – Vanessa Barnett

Contents
Volume 3, Issue 8

September 2003

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News Items

• Electoral register rules lawful - 192.com fails to overturn law
• Commissioner to simplify data protection law
• Archer uses DPA for revenge
• Constitutional Affairs replaces Lord Chancellor
• MP calls for debate on RFID
• Equal pay questionnaires - how employers should respond
• New Irish data protection law

Articles

• Criminal records and data retention - a guide for employers – - Andrew Sharpe & Gabriella Wright
• Destination India - Eduardo Ustaran
• Freedom of Information in Practice - Part II - Cinzia Biondi
• The Commissioner’s Annual Report - Privacy & Data Protection Team

Contents
Volume 3, Issue 7

July/August 2003

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News Items

• Intra-company global data transfers to be allowed by the EU
• MP's demand privacy law for the UK
• Notification scammers making millions
• New Nokia phone may breach data protection law
• Microsoft targets spam
• Canadian airline cookies breach law

Articles

• Data Protection Compliance: Making a Virtue out of Necessity - Kate Brimstead of Herbert Smith
• The Topless Temptation: Can Editors resist destroying Self-regulation? - Grietje Baars of Bird & Bird
• Freedom of Information in Practice: Part I - Cinzia Biondi of Wragge & Co
• Subject Access and Third Party Information: The Duty of Confidentiality - Peter Carey of Privacy & Data Protection

Contents
Volume 3, Issue 6

June 2003

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News Items

• EU Data Protection Law on track - but better enforcement needed
• Citibank - breach of data protection law?
• Websites still failing to comply - research
• Campaign against transfers of passenger data to the US

Articles

• The Offence in Section 55 DPA: Unlawful Obtaining of Personal Data - Catrin Evans of 1 Brick Court Chambers
• Data Protection and RFID Systems - Eduardo Ustaran of Berwin Leighton Paisner
• Disclosures under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 - Andrew Sharpe of Charles Russell
• Update on US Privacy Law - Cynthia Burnes of Privacy & Data Protection

Contents
Volume 3, Issue 5

April/May 2003

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News Items

• New Data Protection Laws for Email Marketing
• Zeta-Jones wins action against Hello!
• US citizens want EU-style data protection law
• EU airline passenger records to be made available to US

Articles

• The New Data Protection Regulations: A comparison with the Directive - Eduardo Ustaran of Berwin Leighton Paisner
• Grasping at Nettles: An analysis of the Douglas v Hello! Case - Grietje Baars of Bird & Bird
• The Data Retention Code: Will CSP's jump or will they be pushed? - Andrew Sharpe of Charles Russell

Contents
Volume 3, Issue 4

March 2003

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News Items

• CCTV images breach man's right to privacy
• TUC criticises Commissioner for delay to Employment Codes
• Microsoft's Net.Passport radically altered for EU compliance
• Lord Archer makes subject access request
• £15,000 fine for text message spamming

Articles

• Using Telecoms Data for Marketing - Eduardo Ustaran of Berwin Leighton Paisner
• Data Protection for Children's Websites - Wendy McAuliffe of Habbo Limited
• Customer Databases: Collection, Management & Use - Sarah Gwyndaf-Roberts of Wacks Caller
• Argentina: Safe for Data Exports - Maria Veronica Perez Asinari of the University of Namur
• US Privacy: Latest Developments - Cindy Burnes

Contents
Volume 3, Issue 3

January/February 2003

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News Items

• Privacy Ombudsman to replace Press Complaints Commission
• Zeta-Jones action faces possible strike-out
• AOL wins damages for email spam
• Further delays to employment codes

Articles

• New Subject Access Rules - Daniel Pavin of Taylor Wessing
• The Problem with Privacy: A Modest Proposal - Lilian Edwards of Edinburgh University
• Trans-border flows of Employment Data - Robert Bond of Faegre Benson Hobson Audley LLP
• Privacy 2002: A Review of UK Case Law - Grietje Baars of Bird & Bird

Contents
Volume 3, Issue 2

December 2002

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News Items

• Naomi Campbell takes Mirror to the Highest Court
• US pleads for softer EU data protection laws
• Government keen on curbing subject access right

Articles

• New Subject Access Rules - Daniel Pavin of Taylor Wessing
• The Problem with Privacy: A Modest Proposal - Lilian Edwards of Edinburgh University
• Trans-border flows of Employment Data - Robert Bond of Faegre Benson Hobson Audley LLP
• Privacy 2002: A Review of UK Case Law - Grietje Baars of Bird & Bird

Contents
Volume 3, Issue 1

October/November 2002

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News Items

• Commissioner announces new enforcement strategy
• Data protection claim scuppered by prior proceedings
• £50,000 fine for spamming by text message
• UK - worsening record on personal privacy
• French Internet Decision
• Unlawful data sharing by Local Authorities
• Robertson commences new action against local authority
• UK Government responds to European Commission on Data Protection Directive

Articles

• Using the Data Protection Act as a weapon in Litigation - Daniel Pavin of Taylor Wessing
• Anti-Terrorism - passing information to the authorities - Andrew Sharpe of Charles Russell
• The Employment Practices Data Protection Code: Part 3 - Monitoring at Work - Piers Leigh-Pollitt of Osborne Clarke
• Case Report
• R v IPSWICH CROWN COURT, EX PARTE NTL GROUP LTD (2002)

September 2002
Volume 2, Issue 8

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News Items

• New Euro data retention rules imminent
• Employee survey - dramatic increase in access requests likely
• New Japanese spamming law
• CCTV evidence inadmissible
• Government obfuscation revealed by subject access
• Commissioner's Latest Annual Report
• Vodafone on location
• New Information Commissioner
• New interception regulations
• UK Shops breach of security
• Facial recognition for customer satisfaction?
• New Guidance from the Information Commissioner
• Monitoring code still not finalised
• Thought Police
• Commissioners' Annual Conference
• Unlawful eavesdropping

Articles

• What's the 'Big Deal' with Data Protection? - Cinzia Biondi of Wragge & Co
• Privacy duties for the Public Sector - Eduardo Ustaran of Berwin Leighton Paisner
• "Sir/Miss, what mark did I get?": Access to education records under the Data Protection Act 1998 - Andrew Sharpe of Charles Russell
• Microsoft - Passport to nowhere? – Cindy Burnes of Privacy & Data Protection

July/August 2002
Volume 2, Issue 7

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News Items

• Europe nears agreement on new Data Protection laws
• Most data transfers to the US are unlawful
• Inland Revenue Data Blunder
• Local Authority's tax collection unlawful
• Angus Deayton - centre of privacy debate
• Commissioner Swamped by Number of Complaints
• Data Scam Prosecution
• Government U-Turn on Snooping Regulations
• New law to deter document shredding
• New Data Protection Amendment Bill
• Commission announces review of DP law
• Compulsory Identity Cards imminent

Articles

• European facelift for E-communications Data Privacy - Rowan Middleton and Dominic Callaghan of Herbert Smith
• How to draft data protection opt-out / opt-in clauses for websites - The Privacy & Data Protection Team
• The use of Cookies in Europe - a recipe for disaster?
• To disclose or not to disclose - when should personal data be handed over to local authorities or law enforcement bodies? Claire Grainger of Pannone & Partners
• The opt-in / opt-out debate in the United States - Cindy Burnes of Privacy & Data Protection

June 2002
Volume 2, Issue 6

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News Items

• Political furore over new email monitoring code
• New regulations on electoral role data spell doom for marketers
• Vodafone fails to keep control of data processor
• Commission report on Safe Harbor
• European Parliament votes on new Data Protection Directive
• Swedish email law - new
• New rules on anonymised data
• CCTV scam
• Hong Kong monitoring law
• Canadian opt-out policies unlawful
• BT denies encouraging infidelity

Articles

• Email policies - why prevention is better than cure - Dai Davis and Kate Smith of Nabarro Nathanson
• The way the Cookie crumbles - Andrew Sharpe of Charles Russell
• Data Protection Act Compensation - Just a Cause Célèbre? - Kate Brimsted of Herbert Smith
• Email and Internet usage policies in the United States - Cindy Burnes of Privacy & Data Protection

April/May 2002
Volume 2, Issue 5

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News Items

• Naomi Campbell wins damages in landmark privacy ruling
• Employers fear ramifications of French email decision
• Employers Code - Part 1 published
• Argentina's new data protection law
• Italian privacy
• Japanese spam
• New rules for Information Tribunal
• Jail sentence for French cookie use
• Al Feyed wins in Tribunal
• The Big Brother Awards

Articles

• The Sale and Transfer of Customer Databases - Jason Chess and Jamie Radford of Wiggin & Co
• Employers' Duty of Disclosure following a Subject Access Request - Nick Hurley of Charles Russell
• The Effect of the E-Commerce Regulations on Email Direct Marketing - Eduardo Ustaran of Berwin Leighton Paisner
• Anti-Terrorism & Data Retention - The PDP Team
• Privacy in the United States - Cindy Burnes

March 2002
Volume 2, Issue 4

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News Items

• Website investigation shocks companies into compliance
• Injunction granted to prevent publication of brothel photographs
• A new data protection commissioner for Europe
• EU agrees telecoms package
• Government published results of data protection consultation

Articles

• A Taste of European Spam Regulation - Rowan Middleton of Herbert Smith
• Personal Data as Currency - Jo Sanders of Olswang
• Data Processors: Model Contracts for Third Country Transfers
• The United States Patriot Act - The P&DP Team
• US Privacy Update - Cindy Burnes

January/February 2002
Volume 2, Issue 3

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News Items

• Data Withholding - endorsed by Court of Appeal
• Directors prosecuted for breaching data protection law
• Canada approved for data transfers
• Information Commissioner to resign
• Spamming by Sainsbury's
• Commissioner to target websites
• Commissioner launches 'guide to data protection auditing'

Articles

• Cracking the Code - Ian Bourne, Strategic Policy Manager at the Office of the Information Commissioner, analyses the preparation of the code for employers
• The new Data Protection Directive - Eduardo Ustaran of Berwin Leighton Paisner examines current developments in the the life of the draft directive
• The Right to Privacy - Peter Grundberg of Wilmer Cutler and Pickering analyses recent cases of importance to English privacy law
• Case Report
• Regina (Robertson) v Wakefield Metropolitan District Council, 2001 - the electoral register case

December 2001
Volume 2, Issue 2

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News Items

• European Parliament votes to ban the use of Cookies
• Electoral register - sale of data illegal
• Continued uncertainty over financial services data exports
• Ryanair breaches data protection law
• P3P - adequate privacy protection?
• Delays to Information Act implementation

Articles

• Data Protection Act: Enforcement and Sanctions - Rowan Middleton & Christopher Rees of Herbert Smith
• Websites: New guidance from the Information Commissioner - Part II of the article by Hazel Grant and Elizabeth Brownsdon of Bird & Bird
• The Ultimate Guide to the Data Protection Act 1998-Part V - the fifth in our occasional series of articles looks at the nature and effect of the First Data Protection Principle
• ISP's: Data controllers or data processors? - Eduardo Ustaran of Berwin Leighton Paisner
• Data retention - Laura Gordon of Boyds examines this controversial issue in the wake of September 11th.
• Book Review: Blackstones' Guide to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 - John Wadham, Jonathan Griffiths & Bethan Rigby

October/November 2001
Volume 2, Issue 1

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News Items

• Data Protection Tribunal forces MI5 to open files
• The Privacy threat from Operation Enduring Freedom
• Proposal for alternative Data Transfer Contracts
• 192 monopoly to be ended
• Harry Potter author wins privacy complaint
• Easyjet Chairman requests SAR from Barclays
• Boots breaches law
• Commission announces Draft Clauses for Third Country transfers
• Recommended data practices for the airline industry
• Guidelines published for new Employee Data Code
• Bogus data protection services
• Privacy & Data Security Summit announced
• Telephone Preference Service for the United States

Articles

• Human Resources - analysis of the position for HR professionals after 24th October 2001 (Piers Leigh-Pollitt of Osborne Clarke)
• Data Transfers to Third Countries - a comparison between safe harbor and model contract clauses (Ben Goodger and Pamela Morey-Nase of Willoughby & Partners)
• Freedom of Information - the basics of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (Cinzia Biondi of Wragge & Co)
• The Transitional Provisions - an analysis of the first and second transitional regimes (Rowan Middleton & Christopher Rees of Herbert Smith)
• Nurses' Data - the proposals to make nurses' information public (Siobhan Robinson of Pritchard Englefield)

September 2001
Volume 1, Issue 8

News Items

• New Data Protection Law Imminent
• Text Message Marketing
• CBI to develop alternative export contract
• Draft Report on Standardisation of Privacy in Europe
• High Court challenge to sales of electoral registers by Local Authorities

Articles

• The Commissioners Annual Report - a breakdown of the essentials (P&DP Team)
• Employee Monitoring - analysis of the views of the Information Commissioner (Valerie Taylor of Consignia Plc)
• Hello! - analysis of the latest views on this and related cases (Sarah Thomas of Charles Russell)
• Websites Part 1 - analysis of the recent guidance issued by the Information Commissioner (Hazel Grant & Elizabeth Brownsdon of Bird & Bird)
• BS7799 - what it is and whether you need it (Richard Mayall of Insight Consulting Ltd)
• Product Review: Guide to the Practical Implementation of the DPA - a BSI loose-leaf publication

July/August 2001
Volume 1, Issue 7

News Items

• Increase in Personal Privacy Awareness
• 'Safe harbor' springs a leak
• Delay to Criminal Records Bureau
• Totnes CCTV Cameras removed
• Latest Update on US Privacy Law
• Data Protection Insurance
• Update on Australian Data Protection Law

Articles

• Employee References - is there an exemption from subject access? (Peter Carey)
• Corporate Transactions - how is data protection relevant to Due Diligence (Catriona Dove of Linklaters & Alliance)
• The Ultimate Guide - The Rights of Individuals (P&DP Team)
• E-Privacy & Third Generation Mobile Networks (Eduardo Ustaran of Berwin Leighton Paisner)
• Book Review: Media Law & Human Rights - Andrew Nicol QC & Gavin Millar QC

June 2001
Volume 1, Issue 6

Articles

• Microsoft adopts Safe Harbor
• Medical records 'up for grabs'
• Data Protection Absurdities (Peter Carey of P&DP)
• Cookies (Sarah Gwyndaf-Roberts of Wacks Caller Solicitors)
• The Ultimate Guide - Data Subject Access Requests
• e-Privacy - Comments on the draft Communications Data Protection Directive (Eduardo Ustaran of Berwin Leighton Paisner)
• The Differences between Directive 95/46/EC and the Data Protection Act 1998 (Bill Milne)
• Interview with Microsoft's Director of Corporate Privacy (Cindy Burnes of PDP)

April/May 2001
Volume 1, Issue 5

Articles

• Bush criticises EU Privacy Law
• OIC delays Snooping Code
• Data Processors - an analysis of the legal requirements (Peter Carey of P&DP)
• Marketing (Hazel Grant of Bird & Bird Solicitors)
• The Ultimate Guide - Notification
• e-Privacy - an analysis of the model clauses for data exports (Eduardo Ustaran of Berwin Leighton Paisner)
• News Update from the United States (Cindy Burnes of P&DP)

March 2001
Volume 1, Issue 4

Articles

• UK - World Leader in CCTV Deployment
• ASP's demand data protection consistency
• Data Protection and Telecommunications (Peter Carey of P&DP)
• Ultimate Guide - Introduction to the Data Protection Act 1998
• e-Privacy - Online Profiling (Eduardo Ustaran of Berwin Leighton Paisner)
• Book Review - International Privacy, Publicity and Personality Laws - Michael Henry
• Privacy Policies - How to Draft one (Cindy Burnes of P&DP)
• Police and M15 Processing (David Northmore)
• Privacy Legislation in the US (Hammerman & Grossman of Dickstein Shapiros)
• Safe Harbor Update

January/February 2001
Volume 1, Issue 3

Articles

• Zeta-Jones creates Privacy Law
• Data Protection Commissioner changes name
• E-mail monitoring (Peter Carey of P&DP)
• e-Privacy - an analysis of the need for online consent (Eduardo Ustaran of Berwin Leighton Paisner)
• Product Review - CDestroyer
• Insurance - an analysis of data protection in the insurance industry (Mary Keeling & Sharon Curd of Cornhill Insurance)
• Media Privacy - an analysis of the OK! V Hello! case (Sarah Thomas of Charles Russell)
• Website Processing (Emily Wiewiorka of Boyds Solicitors)

November/December 2000
Volume 1, Issue 2

Articles

• Data Protection Laws to thwart m-Commerce
• Big Brother Privacy Awards 2000
• The Adequacy of Data Protection Laws in Australia (Catriona Dove of Linklaters Alliance)
• Human Rights in Employment (Cindy Burnes of P&DP)
• The 'Safe Harbor' Rules (James Black of P&DP)
• Purely Water - an analysis of the Thames Water Undertaking (Peter Carey of P&DP)

October 2000
Volume 1, Issue 1

Articles

• Website Processing Unlawful
• 'Safe Harbor' rules adopted
• Third Country Adequacy Focus: Jersey (Wendy Benjamin of Bailhache Labesse)
• Monitoring Employee Emails (Peter Carey of P&DP)
• Carnivore - Big Brother in the US (Cindy Burnes of P&DP)
• A Step into the Future of Law (Eduardo Ustaran of Berwin Leighton Paisner)
• The Strange case of Landlordsdata.com