UK biz baffled by Reding's planned data protection law rewrite: ICO A large number of British businesses are clueless about many of the main provisions detailed in the European Union's proposed data protection reforms, a new report from the Information Commissioner's Office has claimed. Consultancy firm London Economics - which was commissioned to carry out the research (PDF) on behalf of the …
They are obviously convinced that UK's current Data Protection and Privacy arrangements are SO fantastic, it doesn't need such EU input.
Personally, I would welcome that fact that my data and privacy would be protected in the same way and with the same recourse to abuse, if required, across the EU. I would have thought, too, that for a country that needs to engage with the EU commercially, to survive economically, governemnt and business would welcome only having the one set of rules and regulations to observe across the EU trading estate...
Mine's the one with the completely open pockets...
Rather than protect our data they would rather attack the mechanisms that would lead to some actual protection.
The entire attack is just an exercise in misleading the British Public rather than any real issues with the proposals.
When you work as a contractor on any Govt organisation you immediately see how lax any (if they even bother to have any) data protection actually is.
From securing data to using documents with the names and addresses of kids in the title of the document.
The UK govt is just scared of the massive fines they would need to pay and ignoring the reasons WHY they would need to pay those fines
From what I have seen (so not scientific sample) most UK businesses including the really big ones are failing quite dismally as far as the main provisions of the current data protection legislation. Worse, the ICO is toothless and a complete waste of space.
The UK gov simply don't want to comply with any sensible legislation on this because they are already earning money from selling our data and think that they can earn more.
The ICO what does it do again...
Phorm - Nothing
Talk Talk - Nothing
Blucoat - Nothing again
Google - oh big company intercepts data - that's all right they are big so lets do nothing and say we investigated and it is OK
In fact any Telecom company can happily intercept UK communication data while the ICO drinks tea and pockets a very high pay cheque.
I wonder how much the report cost and who's pal got the job of writing it.
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