Data Protection Commissioner Publishes Report into the Hospitals Sector
The Data Protection Commissioner’s office has recently published a report entitled “Data Protection Investigation in the Hospitals Sector”. A full copy of... Read More
Data Protection Prosecution with Sentence of 2 years For Sale of Personal Information Welcomed
Assistant Data Protection Commissioner, Tony Delaney, has recently welcomed the outcome of prosecution proceedings which concluded at Letterkenny Circuit Court and which... Read More
Privacy and Electronic Communications – European Commission proposes new legislation
A full copy of the press release is available to view here. According to the Press Release, “The proposed Regulation on Privacy... Read More
Data Protection – Is an Exam Script Personal Data?
The recent case of Peter Nowak v The Data Protection Commissioner [2016 IESC 18] asks the interesting question of whether an exam script... Read More
Facebook posting and demotion – English High Court rules in favour of Employee but expresses “real disquiet” about the financial award
The recent English decision of Mr Adrian Smith v Trafford Housing Trust [2012 EWHC 3221 (Ch) delivered by Justice Briggs in November 2012 sheds further... Read More
Data Protection and proposals for “one stop shop”
It is proposed under new EU rules that Ireland’s Data Protection Commission may be set to become the lead agency for regulating... Read More
Social Privacy Bill passed by Californian Senate this week
On Tuesday of this week, the Californian Senate unanimously passed the Social Privacy Bill which will prohibit Colleges and Universities from requesting... Read More
Illinois second state to ban employers from requesting social network usernames or passwords
Illinois has become the second state after Maryland in the US to ban employers from asking employees or job candidates for their Facebook... Read More
UK employer liable for facebook status “finally came out of the closet” “hijack” of ex-employee by colleagues
I recently came across this case of the London South Employment Tribunal of 19th June 2012 whilst doing some research for a presentation... Read More
Twitter ordered to hand deleted tweets of user arrested during occupy wallstreet demonstration
Interesting article (link attached here) reporting case in Manhattan on July 2nd whereby Twitter ordered to turn over some of deleted tweets... Read More