The MP for Ochil & South Perthshire, John Nicolson, wrote to the Information Commissioner last week, asking for clarification on what political parties can lawfully do with certain types of personal data. Nicolson previously enjoyed a minor coup at the DCMS select...
Councils
Join the Club
We've all been there. It's Saturday night, "The Masked Singer" has long finished, and there seems to be nothing else to do but reveal Dominic Cummings' mobile number on the internet. Award-winning journalist Carole Cadwalladr took to Twitter to either announce that...
Weapons of Mass Deference
The defining issue of the Tony Blair era is almost certainly the Iraq War, and I suspect that when most people think of him and his sidekick Alistair Campbell, it’s WMDs and dodgy dossiers that come to mind. So when the First Tier Tribunal issued a decision...
Taking back control
I've encountered many different posts and opinions about how Data Protection law will work in the UK after December 31st. This is my take as things currently stand. DP law in the UK Data Protection law in the UK will comprise the UK GDPR (a version of the GDPR amended...
Open Wrongs
The Open Rights Group describes itself as “a UK-based digital campaigning organisation working to protect our rights to privacy and free speech online”. Although its campaigns are varied, there has definitely been an emphasis in recent months on the work of the ICO,...
Unrepresentative
Predictions about the Brexit negotiations are probably a mug's game. Despite the fact that Boris Johnson's government is the stupidest and most incompetent of my lifetime, it's clearly not impossible that the EU will give the UK some kind of trade deal at the end of...
Speed cameras
The A5103 is a dual carriageway near my house that connects the M56 at the bottom with the city of Manchester at the top. People come racing off the M56 onto it, many barely slowing before hitting the M60. However, immediately afterwards, the A5103 goes through a...
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes
Award-winning journalist Carole Cadwalladr took to Twitter on Thursday to share her disappointment at a revelation that the Information Commissioner's Office will not be providing a final report to Parliament on Operation Cederberg, the long-running, multi-million...
Remote Working
A friend drew my attention to a recent interview given by the Information Commissioner to the Vancouver Courier. I’m not here to disparage “Canada's #1 Community Newspaper Site”, but I can’t help thinking that a local paper is a bit of a comedown after the glory days...
Taking the piss
On page 74 of the Information Commissioner's newly published Annual Report, you can find the welcome news that the ICO reduced the amount of water in flushing toilets and the timings of auto flushing in urinals. Sadly, the expansion of the organisation's footprint in...