The Age of Internet Surveillance
With effect from today, all UK internet service providers (“ISP”) will be required to retain data relating to every email which is sent and every online telephone call which is made using their...
View ArticleA problem shared is a breach of the DPA?
It’s a good time for a conference about information sharing. The data sharing provisions in the Coroners and Justice Bill have been withdrawn, in the face of widespread criticism – including from the...
View ArticleRecent conference papers
On 11 KBW’s main website, you can now find some conference papers delivered this month by members of chambers. There’s a paper that I gave at a Northumbria University conference. The theme of the...
View ArticleNHS SPINE – PERMISSION TO DELETE CARE RECORDS
The creation of electronic summary patient records which can readily be accessed by medical teams on the NHS broadband computer system, known as the Spine, is one which has met with approval in many...
View ArticleHome Office publishes response to its consultation on communications data
The Home Office has published a summary of responses to its April 2009 consultation paper on ‘communications data’, i.e. information about a communication that does not include the content of the...
View ArticleDISCLOSING INFORMATION FOR CHILD PROTECTION PURPOSES – NEW ADMINISTRATIVE...
The question of whether and to what extent local authorities can or should share information about individuals thought to pose a risk to children is often a very difficult one to answer in practice....
View ArticlePATIENT DATA SHARING – ARE WE RUNNING OUT OF PATIENCE?
The question of the extent to which those working within the national health service should have access to patient data is a difficult one to resolve. On the one hand, permitting widespread access can...
View ArticleICO’S SURVEILLANCE REPORT 2010: ‘SLEEPWALKING’ RISK REMAINS; ‘PRIVACY IMPACT...
The Information Commissioner has delivered his latest report to the Home Affairs Select Committee on “the state of surveillance” in the UK. The report traces privacy-related developments since the...
View ArticleSCOTTISH GOVERNMENT ISSUES PRIVACY GUIDANCE
The Scottish Government has published its guidance document on Identity Management and Privacy Principles. The guidance is aimed at both public sector policy makers and with those involved in devising...
View ArticleRetention and disclosure of police caution data infringe Article 8
The European Court of Human Rights yesterday handed down a Chamber judgment in M.M. v United Kingdom (Application no. 24029/07) declaring that the arrangements for the indefinite retention of data...
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