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Let’s blame Data Protection (a new series): Part One
Data Protection is to blame for many things (sleepness nights for Data Protection officers, hits to the public purse, a proportionate measure of respect and security for people’s sensitive private...
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An unshared perspective
Paul Gibbons, FOI Man, has blogged about data-sharing, questioning whether an over-cautious approach to sharing of health data is damaging. Paul says What I’m increasingly worried about is what appears...
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Let’s blame Data Protection: Part Two
“The leader of the council wishes to make the names of the debtors public, but the Data Protection Act of 1998 prohibits their publication.” So says an article from the Blackpool Gazette, when quoting...
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Let’s Blame Data Protection – the Gove files
Thanks to Tim Turner, for letting me blog about the FOI request he made which gives rise to this piece On the 12th September the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, in an op-ed piece in the Telegraph,...
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The Moanliness of the Long-distance Runner
Another in the Let’s Blame Data Protection series, in which I waste a lot of energy on something not really worth the effort The Bournemouth Daily Echo reports that Hundreds of disgruntled runners who...
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Virgin on the ridiculous
I got into a rather odd exchange over the weekend with the people running the Virgin Media twitter account. It began when, as is my wont, I was searching for tweets about “data protection” and noticed...
View ArticleSearch and (don’t) destroy
Martin Lewis’s Money Saving Expert (MSE) site reports that over £1m is apparently held by Highways England (HE) in respect of Dartford Crossing pre-paid online accounts (Freedom of Information...
View ArticleData protection nonsense on gov.uk
It feels like a while since I randomly picked on some wild online disinformation about data protection, but when you get an itch, you gotta scratch, and this page of government guidance for businesses...
View ArticleSRA, data protection and the solicitors roll
In August 2022 the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) announced plans to change its rules and reinstate the annual “keeping of the roll” exercise. Until 2014, all solicitors without practising...
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