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.
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 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...
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Peter Hustinx has criticised governments' fondness for biometrics to identify citizens and warned greater interoperability of databases may have serious implications for individuals.
One of the most controversial pieces of legislation in recent years in the tech arena, the data retention directive - which obliges ISPs and other communications providers to keep details of customers' phone calls, texts and emails for up to two...
The long arm of the law has caught up with four scammers who have been sentenced to jail this week for sending out fake data protection notices demanding businesses pay up or risk falling foul of the Data Protection Act (DPA).