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The wrong test for anonymisation?
In February this year I asked the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to investigate reports that Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data had apparently been sold to an actuarial society by the NHS...
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Are we all journalists?
The ICO has said that Global Witness can claim the data protection exemption for journalism, regarding their investigations in BSGR. This fascinating case continues to raise difficult and important...
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A data protection justice gap?
On the 4th March the Supreme Court handed down judgment in the conjoined cases of Catt and T v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis ([2015] UKSC 9). Almost unanimously (there was one dissenting...
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Vidal-Hall v Google, and the rise of data protection ambulance-chasing
Everyone knows the concept of ambulance chasers – personal injury lawyers who seek out victims of accidents or negligence to help/persuade the latter to make compensation claims. With today’s judgment...
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No Information Rights Levy for ICO – where now for funding?
The ICO’s plan for an “information rights levy” appears to have been scuppered by the government. But is retaining data protection notification fees the way to solve the funding problem? Back in the...
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Anti-EU campaign database – in contravention of data protection laws?
The politics.co.uk site reports that an anti-EU umbrella campaign called Leave.EU (or is it theknow.eu?) has been written to by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after allegedly sending...
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Any Safe Harbor in a storm…?
The ICO has contacted me to say that it actually selected SnapSurveys because they offered clients the option of hosting survey response on UK servers, and it has checked with SnapSurveys that this...
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Why what Which did wears my patience thin
Pre-ticked consent boxes and unsolicited emails from the Consumers’ Association Which?, the brand name of the Consumers’ Association, publishes a monthly magazine. In an era of social media, and online...
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Making criminals of us all
The Information Commissioner thinks that countless households operating CCTV systems need to register this, and pay a £35 fee for doing so. If they don’t, they might be committing a crime. The...
View ArticleThe wheels of the Ministry of Justice
…do they turn so slowly that they’ll lead to the Lord Chancellor committing a criminal offence? On 21 December last year, as we were all sweeping up the mince piece crumbs, removing our party hats and...
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