Paul Ticher's Data Protection Roundup: February 2013

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Paul’s quarterly update on data protection news and issues

This quarter’s update covers:

• European overhaul of Data Protection: any progress?
• Cookie law: problem solved?
• Cloud data locations
• Increased penalties for individual Data Protection offences?
• The data is blowing in the wind
• E-mail marketing complaints rise
• First monetary penalty for breach of the fourth Data Protection Principle
• Data Protection and volunteers (a new webinar from Paul which is FREE)

Read all about it here

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Cookie law webinar resources on the knowledgebase

This is the most useful information I have yet seen about the new cookie law.

LASA (London Advice Services Alliance) has published an article which provides an overview of the webinar which Paul Ticher and LASA ran looking at the implications for the third sector of the cookie law, the essence of which is that someone else must not store information on your computer without your prior informed consent.

You can view the slides that Paul used, watch the video of the webinar, read the question and answer session, and get information about further resources and examples.

All here.

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New Law Cooking up a Storm for Websites

a short article from NFP Techno which seems to have taken me rather longer to get to you than I would like.

As the May 2012 deadline for the new EU law restricting cookies from websites gets closer, NFPs and businesses across the UK are hoping for a workable technical solution to the proposed legislation.

Read full story...

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Privacy issues could stymie government’s web plans

a short piece by Tim Buckley Owen published in Information World Review Issue 267 (September/October 2011)

You can find it here surrounding the picture of Geraldine van Bueren, Equalities Commission member, who is quoted as saying: “the state is holding increasing amounts of information about our lives without us ... being able to check that it’s accurate or to challenge this effectively.”

Additionally, the way government manages data is “deeply flawed” – while an audit of public sector websites reveals that most organisations haven’t a clue how many cookies they use.

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Data Protection Update

by Paul Ticher in Computanews 162 – November 2011

Article covers:

• Update on security breaches
• Cookie law
• Data Processor contracts
• Payment card security
• Are your staff third parties?

Access the article here

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