News stories posted during April 2012
02/04/2012
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Following a recent ICO seminar on cloud computing, the ICO says that ‘under normal circumstances a cloud provider is the data processor on behalf of the cloud client who is the data controller’. However, cloud providers that are asked to release...
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18/04/2012
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The ICO has said that it was an irresponsible act to publish details of more than 1,000 alleged requests by News International journalists to the private investigator Steve Whittamore. The requests for information were for ex-directory telephone...
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18/04/2012
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The Philippines Senate passed on 20 March the Data Privacy Act, which is now waiting for reconciliation between the two Houses before it can be enacted. The Senate Bill covers both private and public sectors, and provides an exemption for the...
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30/04/2012
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Several National Health Service (NHS) Trusts have received Undertakings from the ICO, but on 30 April the regulator issued the Aneurin Bevan Health Board (ABHB) a penalty of £70,000, making ABHB the first NHS organisation to be served a civil...
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