The UK data protection registrar, Elizabeth France, has begged companies to stop panicking about Europe's new data protection laws. The 1998 Data Protection Act, which promises tighter controls on personal data, is currently awaiting secondary...
US online privacy campaigner, Truste, is to expand its campaign for self-regulated data protection to Europe. Until now, battles over data protection have been strictly territorial - with the EU advocating strict legislation, while the US favoured...
The prospect of long-term wrangling between EU and US authorities over data protection has been side-stepped by an industry-led compromise. Silicon.com learnt today that TrustE, the US forum set up to monitor industry self-regulation of data...
The Conservative Party's Hammersmith and Fulham branch is launching an investigation into the use of voter details stored in its database, after it emerged that the party may be regularly breaking data protection laws.
The Scottish Assembly has launched an investigation into why several thousand Scottish students received inaccurate or incomplete exam results after a processing meltdown by the Scottish Qualifications Agency (SQA) - an investigation which could...
Peter Sommer, a research fellow at the London School of Economics and an adviser to the House of Commons' select committee on trade and industry, said the data protection legislation has been too weak in the area of enforcement up until now.