But, instead of a far-reaching discussion, chief executives at yesterday's meeting took turns to pummel the EC's new laws on data protection, according to US reports. UK deputy data protection registrar, Francis Aldhouse, criticised their reaction.
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 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.
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.
A con-artist who masqueraded as a data protection watchdog official to scare UK firms into coughing up for data registration has moved his operation online. Gary McNeish, director of the Data Protection Act Registration Service, sent an email to...
IBM and Network Appliance (NetApp) are both introducing new gear this week aimed at driving high-end storage features into the midrange storage market. The trend is further fueled by the fact that companies are introducing into midrange systems...