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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…

For the first time in its history, the UK’s data protection watchdog has come clean on how it will enforce data laws going forward in a ‘Strategy for Data Protection…