A retired privacy professional who prefers pragmatism to dogmatism any day.
Joined February 2009
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@rossjanderson Professor Ross Anderson, FRS, FREng Dear friend and treasured long term campaigner for privacy and security, Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge University and Edinburgh University, Lovelace Medal winner, has died suddenly at home in Cambridge.
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As the issue of compensation for miscarriages of justice is rightly in the news, it’s timely to note that in 2014, the government changed the law to make it all but impossible for people wrongly convicted and imprisoned to claim compensation.
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30 pages of genuinely informative exposition preface the Explanatory Notes for the Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill. bills.parliament.uk/publicat…
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The Times knows how to alienate its readers.
Today’s obit of the lovely Margaret McDonagh claims “secured a science degree at Brunel University”. No, she got a degree in ‘Government’ (aka as Politics). She was an excellent student, I was proud to have taught her.
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A post by @CBridge_Chief reflecting 5 years of the GDPR castlebridge.ie/insights/and… I share Daragh's views.
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This is a sensible balance in line with @matthewclifford & @priyalakhani’s work with Patrick Vallance last month - imposing a single rulebook when we don’t yet know where things will end up would be a mistake. gov.uk/government/news/uk-un…
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Agreed! Also used for pre-legislative scrutiny.
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The Investigatory Powers Act (called by some the Snoopers Charter) has been on the statute book for 5 years. The Home Secretary was required to produce a progress report and did so last month but it did not cover all aspects of the legislation. /1
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Here are the Explanatory Notes relate to the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill as introduced in the House of Commons on 18 July 2022 (Bill 143): publications.parliament.uk/p…
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What are “Processing operations” as it appears in Article 58(2)(b)? By the @DPCIreland,
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The Berlin Wall was there to keep people in. In cyberspace keeping information out keeps people in. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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This makes fascinating reading: justsecurity.org/77801/cias-…
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BREAKING: Government says it might not be able to retrieve Whatsapp and text messages relating to lucrative contracts because Lord Bethell "replaced" his phone. SHARE if you think it's high time politicians used proper channels for Government business ✊ glplive.org/bethell-phone
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Just landed in #Vietnam at the start of a visit to South-East Asia visit to discuss the UK’s 🇬🇧 Indo-Pacific tilt.
Looking forward to discussing trade, security and tackling challenges such as climate change, COVID-19 & serious organised crime.
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🔔 NEW 🔔
📺 ASI webinar next Tuesday
💻 Safety Without Freedom? The Online Safety Bill
Our @matthewlesh, @IndexCensorship's @RuthSmeeth, @iealondon's @missvhewson & Graham Smith (@cyberleagle)
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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The High Court of England and Wales has ruled on the application of the #GDPR’s rules on “territorial scope”, in the context of a claim against a website operator.
Here’s a refresher of those rules, with the court’s ruling, and our commentary, woven in:
decoded.legal/blog/2021/01/t…
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NEW: ICO statement in response to UK Government's announcement on the extended period for personal data flows that will allow time to complete the adequacy process ow.ly/XNE550CVgwG
