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...
According to Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, UK and European data protection laws preclude sending personal data to countries without adequate levels of data protection. The latest attempt to harmonise US and European data...
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...
Bogus agencies are targeting software and IT companies with threatening letters demanding extortionate fees to register under the UK's Data Protection Act (DPA). The scale of the problem has forced the UK's data protection watchdog, the Information...
Thousands of accounting firms face fines of up to £5,000 as part of a new crackdown by the UK's data protection watchdog. The Information Commission is set to launch an awareness campaign after research found that half of the UK's 20,000 accounting...
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...