UK Data Protection Laws Out of Touch With Europe, Says Lawyer

The European Commission has taken the UK government to court over the authorities inability to deal effectively with privacy issues, highlighted by the case of Phorm, the behavioural advertising technology that BT secretly tested...

The European Commission on Thursday issued the second phase of warning to the UK government over the manner in which it handled Phorm’s secret trials of its internet-based targeted advertising technology. The EC’s...

The Data Protection Directive is old-fashioned and out of date, a report published by the UK's privacy regulator the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has said. Commissioner Richard Thomas said that the European Union must...

Viviane Reding, the EU Commissioner for Information society and media, said it loud and clear in her weekly video message. Europeans, including Brits, have the right to control how their personal information is used. She added...

The European Commission, lead by the Commissioner Viviane Reding, has criticised the UK for giving too much liberty to internet service firms to gather personal data on users and could take actions to remediate this. In a...

Governments should create a list of all organisations that track internet use and produce an annual report on internet surveillance, the European Parliament has said.The Parliament also said that users' online activity should not...

Data protection authorities from all over the world have agreed to call for legislation specifically limiting the collection and use of children's personal data. In a motion co-sponsored by the UK's Information Commissioner,...

The retention of search engine query data is a security matter and not one for Europe's data protection officials, according to Google's global privacy chief. Peter Fleischer said that its retention of user search data was "just...

Airline passenger information collected by US authorities must not be used for general law enforcement activities and must be deleted after three-and-a-half years, the House of Lords has said.In a just-published report on the...

The Government is not serious enough about protecting citizens' data when it comes to pan-European data sharing schemes, a parliamentary committee warned today. The Government should back the adoption of a sidelined data...

The French data protection authority has fined a subsidiary of US firm Tyco Healthcare over the transfer of employee information across borders and inadequate data safeguards. Tyco Healthcare France was fined €30,000.It is...

The European Commission "clearly breached" its obligations when it agreed a passenger data sharing scheme with the US, the European Parliament has been told. The opinion was given just as negotiations on a new deal are begun.It...

The German Presidency of the European Union wants police forces across Europe to be able to share data more freely and wants a single body to be in charge of overseeing the process.The changes are contained in a framework...

The Data Protection Directive does not need to be amended and has operated successfully according to a report conducted by the European Commission. But some countries' data protection supervisors are not independent enough of...

Europe's police data protection policies must be more consistent before Europol's powers can be increased, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has said. The European Parliament last week proposed increasing the police...