The Commission have been running a consultation for several months to inform a possible revision of the Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC), which is now fifteen years old and starting to creak under the strain of new ways of doing business. I’ve sent in a JANET(UK) response raising issues we’ve tripped over in developing the UK [...]
The Information Commissioner has now launched a draft text for a new guide on Personal Information Online, with an opportunity to comment on the text over the next three months. It’s good to see that some of the issues I raised at a preparatory meeting have been included, so I’d encourage readers to have a [...]
At the second reading debate of the Digital Economy Bill in the House of Lords last week, general support was expressed for the idea of imposing duties on ISPs to improve the enforcement of online copyright. There was some concern about the extent of powers that would be granted to the Secretary of State to [...]