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Andrew Southam, Legal Director at leading ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty, heads a heavyweight podium on mastering the privacy challenges of behavioural targeting and social media marketing as well as…

Exports of personal data out of the European Economic Area are prima facie illegal, but one exception is for exports to countries whose data protection laws are recognised by the…

For the first time, the UK data protection regulator has exercised its new powers to impose eye watering fines on personal data abusers. The £500,000 “jackpot” has not been “won”…

A German regional personal data regulator has advised data controllers on his patch that if they are looking to export personal data to the US, they cannot simply rely on…

One way to ensure a transfer of personal data from the EU to the US does not fall foul of Data Protection Directive export controls is to send it to…

Commissioner Reding has made a key announcement on plans to update the creaking 1995 data protection directive. These are based on a disappointing total of 160 responses received from across…

EU Data Protection Commissioner Peter Hustinx will give the keynote address at the 4th Annual DataGuidance European Data Protection Intensive to be held this year in London on 20 and…

From 6 April 2010, the Information Commissioner’s Office will get the power to impose fines of up half a million pounds for serious breaches of data protection legislation. Phil Lee…

Not content with its shiny new 2009 Privacy Notices Code of Practice, the Information Commissioner’s Office is now consulting on a wide-ranging “Personal Information Online Code of Practice.” Comments are…

2010 looks set to be the year of the privacy regulator, with eye-watering data protection fines, audits, assessment notices and even prison sentences for “blagging offences” all supposedly coming into…

ICO’s 2008/9 Report initially got lost in a flurry of juicier stories about the new Information Commissioner, behavioural advertising and data security breaches. However, it offers key insights into the…