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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…

The FTC has taken its first ever safe harbor enforcement action against a US business that said it was safe harbor certified for data exports from Europe when, in fact,…

Amendments have been made to the Federal German Data Protection Act. Georg Meyer-Spasche reports from Osborne Clarke’s Cologne office on the imminent changes and explains what companies with German offices…

ICO has published the final version of its “Privacy Notices Code of Practice”, together with a wealth of good and bad practice data collection examples – but gets its soft…

As data protection stories continue to hit the headlines, Osborne Clarke’s nationally recognised data protection team will provide a plain English guide to key risk mitigation steps at One London…

As controversy rages over a marketing tool that some say was always going to be digital marketing’s ultimate “killer app.”, Osborne Clarke asked its global data privacy colleagues in all…

The UK is in hot water after failing, according to the European Commission, to implement properly European data protection legislation safeguarding consumers against unwarranted behavioural advertising. Phil Lee reports.  …

Time was when data protection watchdog the Information Commissioner’s Office laid down a marker requiring prior opt in before “deep packet inspection” online behavioural advertising technology was deployed. Phil Lee…

Following on from last month’s draft Code of Practice for Privacy Notices, ICO has now launched the “BIG PRINT small print” campaign, with a view to ending the practice of…

The data protection law watchdog has published for consultation a draft code of practice for drawing up privacy notices including privacy policies on websites. The idea is that failure to…