Data protection and privacy campaigners face a hard time
A well respected privacy commentator has made a wise remark. He said of Nick Clegg’s speech as enthusiastically reported yesterday: “I'll wait to see the fine print”. Well, in my experience this cautious approach is well justified. Back in 1990s, when I was perhaps a bit more “active” than I am now, I used to brief several opposition Labour MPs on data protection issues. In opposition, there was no difficulty in raising problems in connection with data protection; however, as




