I’ve done a couple of presentations in the past week to audiences who turn out to raise similar problems for a literal reading of the Act. Looking at the duties imposed by the Act on “ISPs” it’s clear that these imply that the ISP is both
the publicly announced ‘owner’ of IP addresses (i.e. if you [...]
The Information Commissioner has now published his Code of Practice on Personal Information Online (also available as PDF), for which we gave early input. It seems to contain a lot of helpful and pragmatic advice. There are chapters on when the DPA applies, marketing goods and services (including behavioural advertising), providing privacy choices and sensible [...]
I’ve just submitted our JANET response to the latest Ofcom consultation on the draft Code to implement the Digital Economy Act. The Code contains a lot of the detail that was missing from the original Act and has some significantly different proposals in areas that had been previously discussed in Parliament and elsewhere. In particular:
It’s [...]
I had an interesting day in Brussels yesterday, providing input for the Commission’s revision of the 1995 Data Protection Directive. Invitations had been sent to those who responded to the consultation last year, so a wide variety of organisations were present, including banking, marketing, medical, consumer rights, content industries and telecommunications operators.
There was general agreement [...]