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Privacy issues with Labour Party website
Two days ago I wrote about a page on the Labour Party website which was getting considerable social media coverage. It encourages people to submit their date of birth to find out, approximately, of all...
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Naming and shaming no shows is a no-no
I know a couple who run a restaurant. And I know how the problem of no-shows can cause great economic damage to restaurants. Failing to show up, or to cancel in advance, is, moreover, incredibly rude....
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Lib Dems in breach of ePrivacy laws?
As I’ve written on several occasions recently, the sending of direct marketing emails without the consent of the recipient is, as a general principle, unlawful under European and domestic law. The...
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Online privacy – a general election battleground
It’s becoming increasingly clear that one of the key battlegrounds in the 2015 General Election will be online. The BBC’s Ross Hawkins reports that the Conservatives are spending large amounts each...
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Labour’s “HowManyOfMe”– legitimate use of the electoral register?
Is Labour’s shiny new web widget “HowManyOfMe” compliant with the party’s obligations under electoral and ePrivacy law? Regulations 102 and 106 of the Representation of the People (England and Wales)...
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Shameless
Only very recently I wrote about how the Liberal Democrats had been found by the Information Commissioner’s Officer (ICO) to have been in breach of their obligations under anti-spam laws (or,...
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Zero rating for fairness
It’s a long time since I took a flight, but when I used to do so, I too would have the experience, when purchasing items in airport shops, of being asked to produce my boarding pass and having it...
View ArticleICO hasn’t given own staff a GDPR privacy notice
The first principle of GDPR says that personal data shall be processed in a transparent manner. Articles 13 and 14 give details of what information should be provided to data subjects to comply with...
View ArticleICO not compliant with post-Schrems II data protection law?
In which I finally receive a reply to my complaint about ICO’s Facebook page. The issue of the transfer of personal data to the US has been the subject of much debate and much litigation. In 2015 the...
View ArticleMonitoring of lawyers by the state
In the Commons on Monday Robert Jenrick, minister for immigration, said, in the context of a debate on the implications of the violent disorder outside a hotel providing refuge for asylum seekers, in...
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Where’s the Tories’ privacy notice? (just don’t mention the footballer)
The Conservative Party, no doubt scrabbling to gather perceived support for its contentious immigration policies and measures is running a web and social media campaign. The web page encourages those...
View ArticleLabour’s Grubby Data Grab
Nine years ago (I’ve been doing this a long time) I wrote about the Labour Party harvesting details by hosting a page inviting people to find out “what baby number” they were in relation to the NHS....
View ArticleICO guidance on domestic CCTV – more hindrance than help
An article in the Mail on the use of connected doorbells has led me again to one of the oddest pages on the ICO’s website, on the use of domestic CCTV. Odd, because (behoven to the outdated, and...
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