“Andy Brown, the ex-assistant chief constable of West Yorkshire Police, was questioned by officers from the professional standards department over the case of former Chief Supt Elizabeth Preece’s missing spaniel.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th January 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A Government plan to allow more extensive sharing of personal data is not restricted to the public sector and could result in Government-collected information being shared with private companies, a privacy expert has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 16th January 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“Sweeping new powers allowing personal information about every citizen to be handed over to government agencies faced condemnation yesterday amid warnings that Britain is experiencing the greatest threats to civil rights for decades.”
The Independent, 15th January 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A set of instructions on how organisations can stay within the Data Protection Act (DPA) while storing personal information has been published by British Standards (BSI).”
OUT-LAW.com, 14th January 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“Privacy policies are full of jargon and are designed to reduce organisations’ liability rather than to help people understand what their personal data might be used for, the UK’s privacy watchdog has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 12th January 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“Government departments have failed to tighten data handling rules despite losing 30 million personal files in two years, it has been disclosed.”
Daily Telegraph, 12th January 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
S and Marper v United Kingdom (Application Nos 30562/04 and 30566/04)
European Court of Human Rights
“The blanket and indiscriminate nature of the powers of retention of fingerprints, cellular samples and DNA profiles of persons suspected but not convicted of offences failed to strike a fair balance between the competing public and private interests.”
The Times, 8th December 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
“Late abortions of ‘less than perfect’ foetuses are the subject of a secrecy row with the Government.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th December 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“More than 1.6 million DNA and fingerprint samples of innocent people on police databases must be destroyed after a court ruled yesterday that keeping them breaches human rights.”
The Times, 5th December 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Two men from Sheffield, South Yorkshire, who were previously cleared of criminal charges, have won a major victory after the European Court of Human Rights ruled keeping their DNA on the British police database breached their human rights.”
Daily Telegrap, 4th December 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The police could be forced to wipe the profiles of nearly one million innocent people from the national DNA database if the Government loses a key test case today.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th December 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Public bodies including councils, NHS Trusts, the police, the DVLA and Government department will be allowed to share information about individuals without the need to ask Parliament. They will only need to get the permission of ministers.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th December 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The powers of Government to share data will be increased under new laws announced yesterday. Legislation will introduce a fast-track procedure to allow data sharing whenever ‘a robust case’ can be made for sharing, said a Ministry of Justice report.”
OUT-LAW.com, 25th November 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Government has rejected calls for a law that would require significant data security breaches to be notified to the country’s privacy regulator. It said that notification to the Information Commissioner should be a matter of good practice, not law.”
OUT-LAW.com, 25th November 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“Government departments and private sector companies who leak sensitive personal information into the public domain will in future face fines, under a proposal to give ‘teeth’ to the UK’s data watchdog.”
The Times, 24th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A list of members of the British National Party (BNP) has been published online, including thousands of names, addresses and email addresses. The party claims that the security breach was likely to be a deliberate act of ‘political malevolence’.”
OUT-LAW.com, 19th November 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“Thousands of BNP members whose details were leaked will not be able to sue either the far-right group or the disgruntled former member suspected of publishing the list, leading lawyers said last night.”
The Times, 19th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“This guide is based on UK law. It was last updated in October 2008.”
OUT-LAW.com, 11th November 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“A person does not have to be identifiable by name for details of their computer usage to be protected by data protection laws, a senior European privacy watchdog has warned.”
OUT-LAW.com, 6th November 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“The government was embarrassed by another data-loss scandal last night when the private details of up to 12 million people were put at risk after a memory stick was found in a pub car park.”
The Guardian, 2nd November 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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