What does the Information Commissioner Code of Conduct 2003 do?
Purpose: to find a balance between an employee’s right to privacy and an employer’s right for surveillance
Principles it sets out:
1) Surveillance only when there is a real business need
2) Surveillance to monitor crime should be the only covert surveillance
3) Employees should be made aware of surveillance methods, reasons
4) HR should be in charge of surveillance, not the direct manager
5) Use of non-intrusive methods only
6) Employees have a right to privacy
What year did the Communications Act come into effect? What are its salient points?
2003
- makes it illegal to piggyback off someone else’s wifi
- makes it illegal to send or receive indecent images or content
- makes it illegal to send annoying messages
- introduced ofcom as a media regulator
- lifted restriction on cross-media ownership
What does PECR stand for? What year was it enacted?
Privacy & Electronic Communications Regulations 2003
What does PECR do?
- ## made it mandatory for websites to declare cookies and get consent
What are the different types of cookies?
Session cookies - expire at the end of the browsing session
Persistent cookies - remain after the browsing session
First party - cookies from the website you are accessing
Third Party - cookies from an indirect third party website, not the website you are accessing
Who does the PECR apply to?
organisations that advertise/ market electronically
What does RIPA stand for? What year was it introduced?
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000
What does RIPA do?
protects the privacy of individuals against any unnecessary intrusion
What is the ‘Snooper’s Charter’?
The name given to the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 by the media.
What does the ‘Snooper’s Charter’ do?
Expand by the powers of the intelligence agencies to collect private data
- forces CSPs to cooperate with any police investigations
- forced CSPs to store internet data of customers for 12 months
- forces CSPs to remove any encryption that they have added to aid investigation
- lists agencies that can access private information without a warrant
- allows law enforcement agencies to access internet information and private data without a warrant
- introduces new laws about the abilities of the police and intelligence agencies with regards to private information
- limits surveillance on MPs and doctors, journlaists and similar sensitive professions
- introduces an Investigatory Powers Commission
- double lock provision where the IPC has to review any warrants approved by the secretary of state.
- allows law enforcement agencies to hack computers/ devices
