Amberhawk Training writes: Comment Last Friday, data protection day, was commemorated with a meeting organised by the Ministry of Justice in Whitehall. At that meeting, David Smith, the Deputy Information Commissioner (DIC), reviewed the Information Commissioner’s wish list of changes to data protection law. This blog reports on the content of that list. Regulation or…
Category: Laws
UK: Yeates Coverage Prompts Call For Anonymity
Ruth Barnett reports: Suspects arrested by police should have anonymity until they are charged, an MP said as she launched an attack on press reporting of the Joanna Yeates murder case. Anna Soubry, Conservative MP for Broxtowe and a former journalist and barrister, said coverage of suspects in the case had been “unacceptable and plain…
Rep. Speier to introduce ‘do not track’ bill next week
Sara Jerome reports: Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) plans to introduce an online privacy bill next week directing the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to begin a “do not track” program for online advertisers, a Speier aide told The Hill. The program would enable consumers to “opt out” of tracking by online advertisers. The aide said the…
Ad Nets Ignore Do-Not-Track At Their Own Peril
Wendy Davis reports: The prospect of an easy-to-use browser-based opt-out for behavioral advertising advanced this week with Mozilla’s release of a preliminary version of a do-not-track header. But this newest tool is only an early — and potentially buggy — version of the header. An even bigger obstacle for people who want to test the feature…