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In October 2006 the law changed in relation to working mothers who are due to give birth on or after 1 April 2007. Now that date is fast approaching Victoria…

On 6 March the Direct Marketing Association will be holding its seventh annual Data Protection conference. Osborne Clarke’s Stephen Groom will be reporting for the first time on our second…

For the first time in English legal history, most offences deemed as fraud have been brought together under one statute. But could this bring with it an unexpected new weapon…

Do UK privacy laws apply if marketing services are outsourced to US-based suppliers? And if so, what steps must be taken? View the slides for Stephen Groom’s talk on the…

Lawn system franchisee Grow With Us refused to hand its customer details to franchisor Green Thumb. Its pretext was data protection. Green Thumb rejected this, refused renewal of the franchise…

This month, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued its first enforcement order against a website operator. What prompted the ICO into action?   Topic: Data Privacy Who: Information Commissioner's Office ("ICO")      Where: UK When: July 2006 What happened: The…

Confusion continues over how personal data can be compliantly transferred from the European Economic Area to an outside country such as the US which is not EU-recognised as having ‘adequate’…

As anxiety grows about the potential threat to data privacy posed by the increasing use of Radio Frequency Identification (‘RFiD’) tags, a group of major brand owners including IBM, Procter…

As anxiety grows about the potential threat to data privacy posed by the increasing use of Radio Frequency Identification (‘RFiD’) tags, a group of major brand owners including IBM, Procter…