The headmaster of a UK primary school in Portsmouth who planned to broadcast video images of the school playground over the Web for security purposes, is fast becoming a test case for the forthcoming data protection act.
UK companies stand to suffer more than the rest of Europe if last Thursday's 1998 Data Protection Act (DPA) damages trade between Europe and the US, according to a leading IT security consultant. Europe is much tougher on the use of personal data...
The UK data protection registrar, Elizabeth France, has begged companies to stop panicking about Europe's new data protection laws. Speaking at a CBI conference in London, she described scenes of widespread chaos in the build-up to the new Act when...
Canada today moved closer to aligning with the European Union (EU) on data protection legislation which requires companies to be more careful with consumer data. The US government is currently at odds with Europe over its belief that government...
The EU's recently appointed data-protection controller, Peter Hustinx, says that the right to privacy is not absolute - but that it deserves respect. Hustinx, who took on the mantle of data guardian for the EU in January, cut his teeth with the...
Carphone Warehouse has been warned it could face prosecution for exposing the personal details of thousands of customers online and, in some cases, inadvertently setting debt collectors on them. Security from A to Z
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