Bulk Personal Datasets collected by UK government includes solicitor client privileged information

Bulk Personal Datasets collected by UK government includes solicitor client privileged information

A human rights watchdog - Privacy International - has obtained a cache of documents which shed light on UK’s controversial bulk personal datasets or BPDs. The BPDs are collections of personal data of people, most of whom do not present any particular interest for intelligence services. Their existence has been kept in secret for years, and little was known about the way the intelligence obtains and handles such information. But the newly released documents of the U.K. Government Communications Headquarters include a vast range of details on internal policies and procedures regarding BDPs. They cover a ten-year-long period from June 2005 to May 2015, and were released in response to a legal challenge filed by Privacy International last year. In particular, they provide information about what sort of personal information is included in BDPs, how it is categorized and acquired. According to the documents, the data is obtained through third-party voluntary suppliers. The key categories include info on one's biography, travels, finances and communications. Radio Sputnik linked up with Yair Cohen, London-based lawyer, an internet law specialist with the law firm Cohen Davis Solicitors, who explained to us how this information is supplied.

Internet Defamation Is Not Set In Stone

Because the internet is a world of extremes, success and failures could literally happen overnight. The speed by which you can have web pages listed on first pages of Google could bring immediate and substantial amount of money to your business, literally overnight.

The same speed however that leads to this immediate success could cause complete devastation to business owners and to individuals who find that their reputation has been tarnished almost overnight.

The fact that almost everything on the internet is changeable and movable should be somewhat comforting to victims of online defamation, online reputation attacks and online harassment.
Having the knowledge that nothing on the internet is set in stone gives people a real hope that their reputational issues could one day be resolved.

Defamation on the Internet: Google Is Ordered To Disclose Anonymous Account Information

INTERNET giant Google has lost a landmark legal battle that is expected to open the floodgates to online litigation against anonymous online commentators.

The Supreme Court in Australia ordered Google Australia to reveal details of the owner of a website which named an entrepreneur and self-help guru Jamie McIntyre a “thieving scumbag”.

In a statement which is encouraging to victims of online defamation around the world, including UK victims of online defamation, Google Inc confirmed that....Continue on Internet Law Expert blog

Google Must Disclose Anonymous User Information.