Unbeknownst to insurer LV, ex-employee David Barlow Lewis offered to pay an existing employee for personal data sets for use as marketing leads. Eleanor Locke reports on the subsequent Bournemouth Magistrates verdict.
A dentist received a poor review on a website but denied he had ever treated the reviewer and sued the web portal operator. What duties did the portal operator have to verify the review? Stephan Bahner reports.
The October 2015 Etherington Report entitled “Fundraising for the future” recommended a new fundraising industry regulator and a new “Fundraising Preference Service.” Thomas Spanyol reports on progress since then and a British Red Cross initiative.
Not for the first time, a campaigning politician has demonstrated worrying ignorance of basic rules governing telephone marketing and literally paid the price. Stephen Groom reports on a £5,000 fine imposed on David Lammy MP.
A summer 2015 study found that mobile media users spent 89% of their time on mobile apps. But a recent study by the ICO of 21 popular apps showed there was “room for improvement” when it came to privacy. Eleanor Locke reports on a recent blogpost from the ICO.
In September 2013 the UK’s data watchdog published its first “Direct Marketing Guidance.” This upset the direct marketing fraternity with stricter approaches in various areas. Now an updated version has appeared. What are the key changes? Georgina Graham reports.
ICO publishes WiFi location analytics guidance Following concerns about transparency, the UK data regulator has issued recommendations for WiFi network operators to follow to ensure the compliant collection and use of personal data from mobile device users. Eleanor Locke reports
Almost five years after the launch of Best Practice Recommendations for use of cookies and similar technology in connection with online behavioural advertising, new “Mobile principles” finally extend these to the mobile space. Georgina Graham reports.
EU-US Privacy Shield latest US and EU authorities have taken the wraps off the small print of the framework being lined up to replace “Safe Harbor”. Will it be much more onerous for US personal data importers? Stephen Groom reports.
Prodial After receiving over 1000 complaints of automated recorded message calls promoting payment protection insurance claims and an investigation revealing a “staggering” 46 million non-compliant calls, the Information Commissioner’s Office has imposed a record fine. Thomas Spanyol reports
What is a data protection officer and do I need one? Now EU data protection reforms are almost finalised, it is clear that many UK organisations will have to appoint data protection officers. Based on the German experience, where DPOs have been compulsory for years, Tobias Rothkegel of Osborne Clarke Hamburg reports.
