UNITED KINGDOM
Call for Evidence on the data protection legislative framework
The government has today issued a Call for Evidence about how the European Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and the Data Protection Act 1998 are working, and their impact on individuals and organisations. The evidence gathering will help inform the UK's position on negotiations for a new EU data protection instrument which are expected to start in early 2011.
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New requirements for greater transparency in central government procurement
The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has set out new requirements for great transparency in central government procurement. As part of the coalition's staged process to increase transparency, central government departments should, from 1 July 2010, seek to publish ICT contracts on their own websites. Government departments should also avoid including confidentiality clauses in current and all future ICT contracts.
All new central government contracts are to be published in full from January 2011.
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Home Secretary calls for tighter regulation of police number plate recognition cameras
Home Secretary Theresa May has said that police cameras which record motorists' movements should be more tightly regulated. The government is to look at limiting access to the information collected from 4,000 Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras which includes 7.6 billion images, details of number plates and the date, time and place of capture. Privacy campaigners have welcomed the move.
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Pensions Regulator issues new guidance on record keeping
The Pensions Regulator has issued good practice guidelines on the record keeping of members data
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