A revised EC data protection act, which is expected to take effect in October, will impose tighter regulations on the processing of personal information. The Act is an implementation of the EC Data Protection Directive.
Utilities firms are to get an updated set of guidelines on coping with the Data Protection Act. The advisory document comes from the Office of the Data Protection Registrar (ODPR) and will detail the use of client databases for marketing campaigns.
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...
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...
07.10.1999: IT services group, NCC, is warning that changes to the UK's Data Protection Act could catch companies unawares. David Smith, UK assistant data protection registrar, said the survey suggested that much preparation still needed to be done...
The UK's data protection watchdog wants to be given more power to check companies are compliant with privacy laws. Currently the watchdog must gain consent before inspecting an organisation for compliance with the Data Protection Act.