High Court: UK data-retention Act incompatible with EU law
The High Court ruled last week that emergency surveillance
legislation rushed through Parliament last summer is incompatible
with EU law on the grounds that it breaches human rights. As
reported in June, the challenge to the Data Retention and
Investigatory Powers Act (which relates to the harvesting of data
by security forces and police) was brought on behalf of two MPs.
The Act will now be sent back to Parliament for revision, although
the government has said it intends to appeal the decision.
Privacy row brews over request for NHS patient records
Privacy campaigners have criticised demands from the UK Prime
Minister's office to access millions of patient records as part
of government proposals to reform the National Health Service
(NHS). There are fears that the request for data on family doctor
appointments in England could lead to individual patients being
identified. The decision to send the request
