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Robin Wilton of the Internet Society gave a talk at the TERENA Networking Conference on the interaction between privacy, regulation, and innovation. It's a commonly heard claim that regulation stifles innovation; yet the evidence of premium rate phone fraud and other more or less criminal activities suggests that regulation can, in fact, stimulate innovation, though not always of the type we want.

1 June 2013 at 3:53pm

Article 29 Working Party on Profiling

Data Protection Regulation

Profiling

In what sometimes seems like a polarised debate on the draft Data Protection Regulation, it’s good to see the Article 29 Working Party trying to find the middle ground. The subject of their latest advice note is the contentious topic of profiling, which has been presented both as vital to the operation and development of Internet services and as an extreme violation of privacy.

3 January 2013 at 11:39am

ICC Cookie Guide updates

The International Chamber of Commerce has published a revised version of its Cookie Guide, reflecting the new information that has been produced by the Information Commissioner and Article 29 Working Party since

4 December 2012 at 11:18am

New CAP rules on behavioural advertising

The Committee on Advertising Practice (CAP) has announced new rules on online behavioural advertising. UK advertisers will be expected to comply with these rules from 4th February 2013.

2010 - Department for Business Innovation and Skills consultation on implementing the EU Telecoms Framework

Thursday, June 28, 2012 - 14:08

Breach Notification

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This is JANET(UK)’s response to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills consultation on Implementing the Revised EU Electronic Communications Framework. JANET(UK) is the operator of JANET, the UK’s National Research and Education Network, that connects universities, colleges, research organisations and regional schools networks to each other and to the Internet.

3 January 2013 at 11:37am

Art.29WP on Cookies - specific and pragmatic advice

The e-Privacy Directive's provisions on cookies exempt two classes of cookies from the requirement to gain consent (though if they relate to individual users, websites still need to inform users about them, under data protection law):

Cookie Law Update

7 June 2012 at 3:10pm

Data Protection Act

Cookie Law Update By Andrew Cormack 13 June 2012, 12.30-13.30 In 2009 an apparently minor amendment was made to European telecoms privacy law that turns out to have significant implications for websites using cookies as well as other technologies such as e-mail tracking. The change became UK law in 2011 and will be enforced by the Information Commissioner from May 2012. Programme: Discuss what organisations can do to work towards compliance Discuss some examples of how others have responded to the law Q&A Session

29 May 2012 at 7:18am

Analytic Cookies: last minute change

With enforcement of the UK’s new law on internet cookies due to begin this week, on Friday the Information Commissioner published a new version of his guidance on compliance. Although the Information Commissioner says the new version is a clarification, others have described it as a “striking shift”.

6 June 2012 at 11:49am

ICC Cookie Guide