Over the past 12 months, the ICO has developed a significant approach on the use of affiliate marketing and the applicability of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (PECR).
In November 2016 the ICO undertook a review of the use of affiliate marketing in the gaming industry
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
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.
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
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
