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  • Grand Central: Great trains, terrible terms
    Feb 26, 2010
    Recently I travelled to York on Grand Central Railway. I really like their train service because you pay the same fare whether you buy your ticket in advance, at the station, or on the train. ...
  • Filling cabinet breaches
    Feb 1, 2010
    I like to analyse the ICO's undertakings and enforcement notices to see whether there are lessons you can learn from other people's unfortunate mistakes. ...
  • Data Sharing and the Blue Badge Parking Scheme
    Jan 13, 2010
    Back in 2008 the government announced that they were going to reform some of the ways the disabled parking / blue-badge scheme worked to reduce the amount of fraudulent use. ...
  • The future of privacy talk at ORG
    Dec 6, 2009
    Bruce Schneier spoke on the subject of The Future of Privacy at the Open Rights Group on Friday. ...
  • Abuse of radio buttons and check boxes
    Dec 5, 2009
    I’m particularly sensitive to interface design and I saw a real horror this week. ...
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New data security law book launched

On Monday I had the pleasure of attending the launch of Stewart Room’s new book ‘Butterworths Data Security Law and Practice’. Stewart wrote the definitive guide to the Data Protection Act for techies, the equally snappily-named Data Protection and Compliance in Context. This is also the course book for the ISEB Practitioner-level certificate in Data [...]

Risk – a book worth reading

For me, one of the best parts of a holiday is the time sitting by the pool or at the beach (and less happily the airport) catching up on some serious reading. If there’s one profession that requires an insatiable capacity to read it is information security. I find it hard to keep up with [...]