All eyes on the information commissioner's new powers.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Fletcher, Elanie; Bridgett, Michael
- Source
- Computer Weekly; 12/2/2008, p18-18, 3/4p, 1 Color Photograph
- Subject
- COMMISSIONERS
INFORMATION technology
DATA protection
DATA protection laws
EXECUTIVES
PROSECUTION
COMPUTER security
- Language
- ISSN
- 00104787
The article reports that Richard Thomas, Great Britain's information commissioner, is going to be given greater powers to deal with breaches of the Data Protection Act 1998. It mentions that the commissioner can personally prosecute individual company officers for non-compliance of an enforcement notice but government departments are immune from such criminal liability. Additional powers and measures are being called for by Thomas including inspection rights to examine how personal data is handled and requiring organisations to commission independent audits on their data processing.