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22 Dec 2006
Doctors will be advised to refuse to use the NHS's computer system unless the Department of Health (DoH) changes its mind on behaviour which the British Medical Association says is unlawful.
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21 Dec 2006
Liverpool City Council has been fined for data protection offences. The local authority has been fined £300 under the Data Protection Act (DPA) after the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) brought a prosection.
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21 Dec 2006
Three men have been jailed for up to six years for their parts in running an identity theft ring which netted them millions of pounds.
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21 Dec 2006
The Home Office has overturned its decision to create a large single computer for its controversial national identity register (NIR), opting to use existing databases instead. It had previously said that existing systems were flawed.
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19 Dec 2006
The total number of US customer records compromised as a result of security blunders has hit the 100m milestone.
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18 Dec 2006
Greece's privacy watchdog has fined Vodafone €76m ($100m) over a wiretapping scandal that saw the illegal monitoring of the mobile calls of top government officials including Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis.
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15 Dec 2006
The UK is edging towards having an effective privacy law following a landmark ruling in the Appeals Court. Folk singer Loreena McKennitt has successfully thwarted an appeal from the author of a book that McKennitt said violated her privacy rights.
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15 Dec 2006
The Government has backed proposals to limit Freedom of Information Act (FOI) requests to one every three months for all organisations, including newspapers, MPs and campaign groups.
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14 Dec 2006
The Information Commissioner will today name and shame the newspapers he says are breaking the law in their pursuit of stories. Richard Thomas has published a report to Parliament on information theft which contains a league table of alleged offenders....
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13 Dec 2006
Senders of WAP messages to mobile phones can be prosecuted under anti-spam regulations, the Information Commissioner's Office has ruled. The ICO has extended rules to include the increasingly popular medium.
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