Post: Telecom firms prepare for big changes in UK data protection laws
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04-20-2011, 12:44 PM
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TELECOM FIRMS and Internet service providers (ISPs) are getting ready for important changes in UK data protection laws concerning privacy and electronic communications next month.
Speaking at London's Infosecurity conference, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) director of data protection David Smith said the new rules will only apply, for the moment, to telcos, such as British Telecom (BT), mobile phone companies and ISPs.
For ISPs, notification of data breaches to the ICO and customers who have been affected will become a legal requirement for the first time in the UK. They will also be legally obliged to have a security policy.
The ICO's legal powers will be extended, which means it will have a compulsory power of audit to check that service providers have made the data breach notifications they have been supposed to, and it will have the ability to impose monetary penalties if they haven't.
One of the most important new laws concerns "consent to cookies". Cookies are data kept by the user's web browser, which can often include information that they don't want to share.
TELECOM FIRMS and Internet service providers (ISPs) are getting ready for important changes in UK data protection laws concerning privacy and electronic communications next month.
Speaking at London's Infosecurity conference, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) director of data protection David Smith said the new rules will only apply, for the moment, to telcos, such as British Telecom (BT), mobile phone companies and ISPs.
For ISPs, notification of data breaches to the ICO and customers who have been affected will become a legal requirement for the first time in the UK. They will also be legally obliged to have a security policy.
The ICO's legal powers will be extended, which means it will have a compulsory power of audit to check that service providers have made the data breach notifications they have been supposed to, and it will have the ability to impose monetary penalties if they haven't.
One of the most important new laws concerns "consent to cookies". Cookies are data kept by the user's web browser, which can often include information that they don't want to share.
04-20-2011, 12:50 PM
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