An interesting morning yesterday at the launch of the Ministry of Justice’s Response to the Call for Evidence on the Current Data Protection Legislative Framework.
JANET’s evidence focussed on the difficulties of applying data protection law to the Internet: the current law has proved unclear on the status of IP addresses and similar pseudonymous identifiers, and [...]
Thanks to Ibrahim Hasan for spotting that the Home Office’s review of counter-terrorism and security powers includes a section on the acquisition of Communications Data by local authorities. Pages 25 to 29 make two recommendations: first that a magistrate must approve any use by local authorities of section 22 notices under the Regulation of Investigatory [...]
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has published the first draft Statutory Instrument (SI) required for the implementation of the Digital Economy Act’s copyright enforcement process. The Online Infringement of Copyright (Initial Obligations)(Sharing of Costs) Order is is the SI that covers sharing of costs betwen rightsholders and ISPs: as suggested in last summer’s [...]
As discussed here previously, the revision of the European Telecommunications Directives in late 2009 introduced a requirement for telecoms providers to report breaches affecting personal data to their national regulators. Although the revised European Directive has not yet been transposed into national laws, ENISA has been surveying both regulators and telcos on their practice and [...]