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Contents
Volume 8, Issue 6

June 2008

 

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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

Contents
Volume 8, Issue 5

April/May 2008

 

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News Items

  • Government data loss ‘symptomatic of lax standards’
  • HSBC likely to be fined for 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

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Volume 8, Issue 4

March 2008

 

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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

Contents
Volume 8, Issue 3

January/February 2008

 

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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

Contents
Volume 8, Issue 2

December 2007

 

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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

Contents
Volume 8, Issue 1

October/November 2007

 

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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

Contents
Volume 7, Issue 8

September 2007

 

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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

Contents
Volume 7, Issue 7

July/August 2007

 

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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 v 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

Contents
Volume 7, Issue 6

June 2007

 

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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 v Williams
  • Smith – the importance of file headers – Ashley Roughton, Hogarth Chambers
  • US privacy developments – Julie O’Neill, Kelley Drye Collier Shannon

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Volume 7, Issue 5

April/May 2007

 

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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

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Volume 7, Issue 4

March 2007

 

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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

Contents
Volume 7, Issue 3

January/February 2007

 

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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

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Volume 7, Issue 2

December 2006

 

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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

Contents
Volume 7, Issue 1

October / November 2006

 

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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

Contents
Volume 6, Issue 8

September 2006

 

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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

 

Contents
Volume 6, Issue 7

July/August 2006

 

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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

Contents
Volume 6, Issue 6

June 2006

 

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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
 

Contents
Volume 6, Issue 5

April/May 2006

 

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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

Contents
Volume 6, Issue 4

March 2006

 

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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

Contents
Volume 6, Issue 3

January/February 2006

 

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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

Contents
Volume 6, Issue 2

December 2005

 

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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
 

Contents
Volume 6, Issue 1

October/November 2005

 

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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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  • 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 – the new regime – 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

  • Website Compliance – Sarah Gwyndaf-Roberts of Wacks Caller
  • Pushing at the boundaries of Opt-out – Eduardo Ustaran of Berwin Leighton Paisner
  • Model Behaviour – Laura Harper of Pannone & Partners
  • US Federal Trade Commission: The Privacy Police – Alice Turinas of Baker Botts

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)

Contents
Volume 2, Issue 8

September 2002

 

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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

Contents
Volume 2, Issue 7

July/August 2002

 

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 		  News
  • Europe nears agreeme