Data Protection and Privacy

Newspapers fined by French Court for online privacy infringement

Two British newspaper publishers have been fined in French courts for infringing French privacy rights. Olivier Martinez, the French actor and ex-beau...

Date: 30-05-2008 | Author: ebizlaw team

Commissioner fines law firms

Information Commissioner fines two London law firmsThe Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has successfully prosecuted two London law firms for fa...

Date: 20-02-2008 | Author: ebizlaw team

Tightening the Screw on Data Protection

Many businesses continue to bury their heads in the sand, thinking that data protection laws are little more than toothless red tape. At the same time...

Date: 05-12-2007 | Author: Nigel Miller

Offshore Outsourcing – safeguarding personal data

The Data Protection Act has been getting a lot of bad press recently, being the undeserving scapegoat for the apparent police failures of communicatio...

Date: 29-07-2007 | Author: ebizlaw team

International transfers of data, where are we?

Transferring personal data out of the European Economic Area (EEA), particularly to the US, is still problematic for those businesses that operate int...

Date: 02-03-2007 | Author: ebizlaw team