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How embarrassing! The UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is joining a judicial review (JR) to ensure the Metropolitan Police’s current use of live facial recognition technology (FRT) complies with human rights law. Ten days earlier, our laissez-faire ICO issued the blandest of non-statements (13 August 2025) concerning the Police use of FRT: “When used by the police, FRT must be deployed in a way that respects people’s rights and freedoms, with appropriate safeguards in place”. What these appropriate
This is my contribution to the Second Reading (Lords) of the Data Protection and Digital Information (DPDI) Bill which is tomorrow. First there is a legal opinion, just published by defenddigitalme from Stephen Cragg KC of Doughty Street Chambers. This is accessible from https://defenddigitalme.org/2023/11/28/new-legal-opinion-on-the-data-protection-and-digital-information-bill/ This legal opinion reinforces the major concerns raised in my previous blogs on the DPDI Bill. Collectively these concerns weaken data subjects rights and the privacy protection afforded by the current UK_GDPR. They concern the definition
The DPDI No.2 Bill (the “Bill”) overturns the Third Party direct marketing rules in relation to data subject’s consent that have applied for 40 years, ever since the DPA1984. This blog illustrates how Third Party marketeers will be able to lawfully rely on legitimate interest for such marketing. For the purposes of this blog, the old ICO DPA1988 Guidance on the processing of personal data for a direct marketing purpose had a useful summary concerning the use of data subject’s
Please look at this cartoon in the context of the blog posted below of the same date References: The Cartoon is lifted from a presentation in 2006 from a European Commission data protection official: http://www.abgs.gov.tr/tarama/tarama_files/23/SC23EXP_Protection%20of%20Personal%20Data.pdf
Oh dear. After a long break, I somehow can’t be asked. However, I have to start somewhere. One of the things we do at Amberhawk is review the last year and the year to come. We decided to refresh the web-site with a dozen or so new Chris Slane cartoons, so if you want to have a look and a Friday laugh (hopefully), please click on Cartoons button on the blog (top left). Wishing you well; serious blogging starts next
I have just received from the Dark Web, a samizdat copy of GCHQ’s Xmas card complete with cartoon from Chris Slane. The references (see below) provide a download of the complete Xmas card, which presumably can be printed out on cardboard in hard copy. I think we can assume that the card is genuine as it contains the exemption notice from the FOIA regime which I came across when I sought access to an unrestricted document (“HMG IA Standard
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This brief blog is to alert you to our UPDATE day in London (Monday, October 28th) where I think I have compiled a very interesting program – in fact the best so far. Speakers include Tim Pitt-Payne QC on Monetary Penalty Notices, Rosemary Jay on latest legal cases, Martin Hoskins on Privacy Impact Assessments, Nick Pickles from BigBrotherWatch on “Big Data”, and a speaker from the Law Commission on its data sharing consultation. The cost of the day session is
©Chris Slane I need a holiday. So do you! See you towards the end of August Messages Data Protection intensive ISEB course in Edinburgh (commences 25th October). Freedom of Information intensive ISEB course in Manchester (commences September 21). The Agenda for the Data Protection Update, on 17th October 2011 in London is on our web-site; the cost £195+VAT for the day. We also have in London a Data Protection Audit course, a Privacy Impact Assessment course: and Regulation of Investigatory
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