Tag: Privacy
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Average privacy policy takes 10 minutes to read, research finds
Website privacy policies take on average 10 minutes to read and sometimes run into thousands of words, researchers have found. While some are short, others would take over half an hour to read, researchers said
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Privacy chief approves of sharing criminal records if privacy beefed-up
Europe's privacy regulator has said that he will back a pan-European criminal records system only if specific data protection measures are put in place. Because the system deals with crime and security, EU data protection law does not currently apply to it
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Data blunders can breach human rights, rules ECHR
The European Court of Human Rights has ordered the Finnish government to pay out €34,000 because it failed to protect a citizen's personal data
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Court advisor says poem list infringed database right
Europe's highest court could strengthen the rights of database creators to protect their work. One of the European Court of Justice's Advocates General has issued an opinion backing a German University's right to stop others using information it compiled.
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Privacy group protests about Street View, but Google says blurring protects privacy
UPDATED: A privacy pressure group has told Google that its Street View photography service might break the law. But the company says that its technical measures will safeguard people's privacy.
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MPs propose new safeguards for Government uses of personal data
A Parliamentary committee has called on the Government to be more transparent about its uses of personal data and to adopt "a principle of data minimisation
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Ex-employee must disclose online contacts, rules UK court
An ex-employee of recruitment firm Hays has been ordered to disclose details of his profile at social networking site LinkedIn
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ICO issues new guidance on transfer of employee information
The Information Commissioner’s Office has today published new guidance to help organisations comply with the Data Protection Act when providing information about their employees under TUPE, the law that protects staff when a business is transferred.
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British newspaper websites liable in France for privacy invasion
Two British newspaper publishers have been fined in French courts because they violated French privacy laws.
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Privacy watchdog opposes giant telecoms database
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has criticised proposals to build one Government-owned database to hold a log of phone calls, email and internet use in the UK. The ICO has said that the move would be unjustified.
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