Kathleen Hall reports: Information from this month’s UK census is at risk of confidentiality breaches from data being shared with policing or intelligence services, a leading law professor has warned. Census data may be shared with other organisations if it is deemed to be in the interests of national security, says Douwe Korff, professor of…
Category: Non-U.S.
Es: Spain’s Parliament Modifies DPA Penalty Authority As DPA’s Enforcement Efforts Scrutinized
This report comes to us from Gonzalo Gallego a partner in the Hogan Lovells privacy practice resident in Madrid: Spain has a new penalty regime for violations of privacy, with many minimum and maximum fines lowered. This is viewed as a business-friendly development at a time when the Spanish Data Protection Agency (“SPDA” or “Agency”) has earned a…
UK: RIPA changes in Freedoms Bill don’t protect privacy enough
Amberhawk Training writes: The “Protection of Freedoms Bill” has a wholly misleading title; the legislation simply does not do what it says on the tin. The CCTV provisions (see here) have more to do with efficient surveillance than privacy protection. We reviewed the Information Commissioner’s concerns about the use of personal data in DNA profiling…
Plastic Surgeon’s Legal Quest To Facelift Google Search Results
Kashmir Hill writes: A cutting edge legal complaint in Europe over Internet reputation could force Google to rethink how it handles individuals’ control over the search results for their names. Spanish plastic surgeon Hugo Guidotti Russo wanted Google to liposuction from his results a 1991 news article about a patient angry about an allegedly botched…