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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. I really dislike the terms and conditions for using their on-board wi-fi.
“Grand Central reserves the right to include the name, [...]

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. When I heard this discussed on the radio, the government’s spokesman talked about providing £10 million towards a data sharing scheme to enable a council [...]

It feels like the ICO has a target of publicising one major breach a week.  This week was the turn of Verity Trustees Limited, the trustee organisation behind The Pensions Trust. The Pensions Trust provides pensions for over 4,000 organisations and 130,000 people from the not-for-profit sector.
In this case the ICO press release (PDF) reported [...]

There’s been a lot in the press for the past few days about the recent T-Mobile breach. Basically it appears that a number of staff at the mobile phone company have been selling customer data which included the customer’s name, their mobile number and when their contract expired. There hasn’t been a great deal of [...]

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 [...]

At last week’s Data Protection conference the new Information Commissioner – Christopher Graham – made his first public speech. With the title ICO: new powers, new funding and a new Commissioner it was certain to establish the direction we’d see the ICO taking for the next five years. The slides from the speech are available [...]

I attended a couple of events over the past week. On Saturday I went to Liberty’s 75th Birthday Conference and on Thursday the ISSA UK Chapter event on the Data Protection Act (DPA).
I had planned to write about Lord Bingham’s excellent speech at the Liberty conference but after an interesting discussion at the ISSA event [...]