Category Archives: data protection

Germany says: “respect data protection laws.” “Ours, we mean, not yours.”

August 20, 2008 – 8:34 pm

German Data Protection officials are launching a criminal investigation into the illegal sale of personal data. Apparently call centres & lottery firms may have sold the data on the Internet. The data included bank details and personal information. All appalling obviously.
But. For the second time this week Geeklawyer gets to say IRONIC. It was only […]

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Freedom of Information

January 31, 2008 – 10:03 am

Props to Alex at the Impact blog for spotting FOI’s blogpost about the Freedom of Information Act being amended to encompass the private sector too.
In response to a question by Lewes Lib Dem MP Norman Baker Jack Straw indicated that the act would be extended to cover the nominally private bodies that excercise public functions. […]

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An end to health and safety madness?

August 12, 2007 – 1:48 pm

Geeklawyer, a pioneer in the difficult art of combining “red in tooth and claw” free market principles with corporate social responsibility, congratulates John Redwood for his latest plans to revitalise capitalism in the UK.
For the past decade we have laboured under the woolly communist thinking of pinko lefty Tony Bliar cynically masquerading as neo-conservativism, […]

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