I first met Jeremy Bentham as a newly arrived philosophy student walking through the South Cloisters of University College London. Behind the plate glass of a huge mahogany case, I looked in upon a seated life-size wax figure of a man in an 18th Century coat and knee britches, happily wearing a straw hat. Only…
NUJ criticizes Met’s photo-law guidance
London’s Metropolitan Police force claims that terrorism legislation gives police officers the right to view photos taken on mobile phones or cameras and to sieze equipment. The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) disputes the accuracy of the advice. Read more on Out-Law.com Related: The Met’s interpretation of the law
CORRECTED: Anonymous web data can be personal data
The Register has a story on a fascinating legal analysis by Chris Pounder of Amberhawk Training (report here, pdf) as to how identifying yourself as being the individual associated with a particular IP address might be used to force companies such as Google and Yahoo to treat your data as being under the UK Data…
Security breaches at South Wales Police
Ten data security breaches in three years have taken place at South Wales Police, it has emerged. A member of staff was prosecuted for accessing and disclosing “intelligence information and previous convictions”. In another case, an employee resigned after being found guilty of charges relating to unauthorised access of the force’s computer system. A worker…