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. Usher said he expects the data protection registrar...
UK businesses are putting themselves at risk of prosecution because of ignorance about data protection laws on the Internet, according to IT law specialist, Tarlo Lyons. The company claims that despite the increasing adoption of ecommerce, most...
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 EU is on the brink of reaching an agreement with the US in the debate over data protection. The EU has confirmed that significant progress was made in talks between the EC director general of Internal Markets, John Mogg, and the US commerce...
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...
Indian government promises of tighter laws to boost data privacy and intellectual property protection for western companies that have outsourced IT and call centre operations to the country are still in limbo - some seven years after first being...