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Data protection implications of sale of Tesco Clubcard company
News that Tesco is considering selling its loyalty card business Dunnhumby raises questions about what might happen to cardholders’ personal data In 1995 the then Chairman of Tesco, Lord MacLaurin,...
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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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What’s happening with changes to anti-spam laws?
In October last year the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) announced a consultation to lower, or even remove, the threshold for the serving financial penalties on those who unlawfully send...
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Attend ICO DP conference, get unsolicited marketing from a hotel…
I greatly enjoyed yesterday’s (2 March 2015) Data Protection Practitioner Conference run by the Information Commissioner’s Office. I was representing NADPO on our stand, and the amount of interest was...
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The Lib Dems’ digital rights bill – an empty promise?
On the 11th of April the Liberal Democrats announced that they would introduce a “Digital Rights Bill” if they were to form part of a coalition government in the next parliament. Among the measures the...
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Information Tribunal increases monetary penalty for company which made spam...
The trouble with asking for a second opinion is it might be worse than the first one. Reactiv Media get an increased penalty after appealing to the tribunal. In 2013 the First-tier Tribunal...
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ICO finds Lib Dems in breach of ePrivacy law
A few months ago, when I entered my email address on the Liberal Democrats’ website to say that I agreed with the statement Girls should never be cut. We must end FGM I hoped I wouldn’t subsequently...
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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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What’s behind the increasing practice of electronic receipts? I’m good at a few things in life, OK at a few more, and pretty terrible at a lot. Into the last category falls car maintenance....
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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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Public houses, private comms
Wetherspoons delete their entire customer email database. Deliberately. In a very interesting development, the pub chain JD Wetherspoon have announced that they are ceasing sending monthly newsletters...
View ArticleRennard, the facts
Has the former LibDem Campaigns guru been engaging in unsolicited electronic marketing? If I want to market my product or service to you as an individual, the general rule is that I cannot do so by...
View ArticleIneffectual powers
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has just announced that it has served a fine (strictly, a monetary penalty notice) of £80,000, under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC...
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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...
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An open complaint to the ICO about MailOnline cookies
***UPDATE at 8 November*** There is no update. Nothing from the ICO at all, other than, at four weeks – after chasing – a message saying it’s taking six to eight weeks to allocate cases. It’s now more...
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