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[this article is based on the draft text published by the European Council on 28th January 2016. Recital and article numbers, at least, will change before the final text]
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With the joint Parliamentary committee having finished taking evidence, there will probably be a short pause in the flow of information about the draft Investigatory Powers Bill until the Committee publishes its report (expected around 11th February) and the Government responds. If you want to do any further research in the meantime, the main sources are:
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As its title suggests, the Commission's public consultation on the regulatory environment for platforms, online intermediaries, data and cloud computing and the collaborative economy covers a lot of different areas. One of these is the rules for on-line intermediaries: at present networks, caches and hosts that carry third party content.
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The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), as the body given responsibility by the Home Office for monitoring compliance with the Prevent duty in the higher education sector in England, has now announced how it will perform this responsibility. Full details can be found at the links to the HEFCE website below: the following is a summary.
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[roughly what I said in a presentation yesterday to the Northern Universities’ Consortium]
I’ve been a full or part-time student for more than thirty years. It's interesting to reflect on how my student record has changed over that time.
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Some very interesting and positive messages came out of this week's Future of Data Protection Forum. Interestingly the forum didn't just focus on the draft European Regulation: partly because the final state of that is still unclear, but also because there was general agreement that reputable organisations shouldn't aim merely to comply with data protection law.
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The European Commission have recently announced a consultation into online platforms. Last month the House of Lords EU Internal Market Sub-committee invited submissions of evidence to inform the UK's response.
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The Government has today published its draft Investigatory Powers Bill. There are 299 pages in the legislation alone, so for now I've been looking at the parts most likely to affect Janet and its customers. So far I’ve looked at a bit less than half of the Bill: further implications, if any, will be the subject of future posts.
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The Information Commissioner's Office has published a new article on how they are responding to the European Court's Safe Harbor judgment. The overall message is that data controllers should take stock and not panic. While noting that the judgment does remove some of the former legal certainty, the ICO is "certainly not rushing to use our enforcement powers".
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