ePrivacy Directive

The Information Commissioner managed to greatly raise the profile of the new EU law on cookies last week, warning in a press release that "UK businesses must wake-up" to the forthcoming change.

6 June 2012 at 10:32am

ENISA Report on Breach Notification

As discussed here previously, the revision of the European Telecommunications Directives in late 2009 introduced a requirement for telecoms providers to report breaches affecting personal data to their national regulators. Although the revised European Directive has not yet been transposed into national laws, ENISA has been surveying both regulators and telcos on their practice and plans.

4 July 2012 at 4:50pm

Home Office RIPA consultation

Interception

Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act

The Home Office have concluded that a couple of aspects of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 need to be fixed in order to comply with European law, and are doing a rapid consultation on the changes. Unfortunately although the consultation document is clear about what the problems are it doesn't give a clear idea (ideally, the proposed revised text) of how they propose to fix them.

4 July 2012 at 4:49pm

Implementing the EC telecoms framework

Earlier this year the European Community revised its regulatory framework for telecommunications networks, so the UK Government is now consulting on how to implement those changes in UK law. Although most of the changes are not relevant to JANET as a private network, I have responded in three areas:

6 June 2012 at 10:16am

Thoughts on Data Breach Notification

Data Protection Regulation

Breach Notification

Regulators and governments are moving towards creating a requirement that anyone who suffers a security breach affecting personal data would have to report it.

6 June 2012 at 9:45am

Cookies - end of the world, or no change?

The amended EC law requiring opt-in, rather than opt-out, to non-essential cookies was criticised last week as "breathtakingly stupid" because of its implications for advert-funded sites. However advertisers have now said that they don't think the law requires any change to current practice!

6 June 2012 at 9:42am

New EC Cookie Law?