http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18090118 - even though most sites won't comply one year on, the ico has made it clear he STILL won't be enforcing the law. He gave them a year of grace - (with no statutury justification) - now the year is up - and they are still ignoring him - and he is STILL doing nothing.

Vinod Bange, a lawyer for Taylor Wessing who has spent time consulting companies who are cautious of the changes, said the small number of businesses who have invested in meeting the guideline deadline could be left feeling frustrated. The ICO's website has implemented its own consent mechanism on its site. "There will be some companies out there wondering why they've gone to the expense, and committed a lot of resource, into trying to tackle a problem which is not going to be enforced," he said. In the interview with E-Consultancy, the ICO's Mr Evans said there would not be a team of investigators seeking out infringing sites, but would act on complaints.

Yet more regulatory failure in the United Kingdom.How much do we spend on the ico?

Phorm Turkey Advertising Solutions ?

It seems that phorm have set-up a company in Turkey using the name PT Advertising Solutions - the first time I'm aware of that they've actually avoided calling one of their companies "phorm".

It's tempting to suggest that they are hoping to bury their past.  It's also possible that this is the first step towards yet another re-branding following the move from 121media to phorm shortly before the UK ISP tie-ins.

http://www.sektorelrehber.com.tr/firma/ptreklamcozumleriticaretveservisanonimsirketi

Google translation of the site at...

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=tr&u=http://www.sektorelrehber.com.tr/firma/ptreklamcozumleriticaretveservisanonimsirketi&ei=3c6wT7C0LsSz8QPvu4nOCQ&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCwQ7gEwAQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3DPT%2BReklam%2B%25C3%2587%25C3%25B6z%25C3%25BCmleri%2BTicaret%2Bve%2BServis%2BAnonim%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26prmd%3Dimvns


(note - there's a video overlay you'll need to close.   In the translated version, the overlay shows an error message - it only applies to the video so close that and the page underneath will be visible)

Also worth noting that the company appears to have been set-up in late november 2011 - suggesting it was funded by and maybe even a major reason for the last flotatation.

George Osborne's secret meeting with Murdoch clan at country estate

Chancellor entertained Rebekah Brooks at official residence in Buckinghamshire as BSkyB bid was planned

George Osborne was dragged deeper into the furore over the Murdoch empire's links to government as it emerged that he entertained Rebekah Brooks for a weekend at his country residence as Rupert Murdoch was planning to take over BSkyB.

Also present for the weekend at Dorneywood, the chancellor's grace and favour residence in Buckinghamshire, was Brooks's friend, Andy Coulson, the former News of the World editor, who at the time was working as David Cameron's director of communications inside No 10.

Labour said that the gathering, at a time when the government was evaluating how to react to News Corp's £8bn bid for the whole of BSkyB – the biggest in UK media history – raised fundamental questions about Osborne's judgment.

Labour says government may have broken law in handling of BSkyB bid



A dismal 32% turnout in the local elections flowed from a sense that all politicians are the same. That belief is often wrong, but in respect of civil liberties it was vindicated a few days after the vote. The Queen's speech proposed secret justice and a licence for electronic snooping. Both wheezes came from a coalition whose founding agreement had said "the British state has become too authoritarian" under New Labour. But both trace back to the fag-end of the Brown era: the surveillance was first proposed in 2009, while securocrats had got to work on secret justice the moment the master of the rolls had shown the audacity to damn the security services' "dubious record" on torture in early 2010. So far as these two freedom-sapping schemes are concerned, the general election might as well never have happened.

C4's Dispatches records private investigator selling bank details and criminal and medical records to reporters

The ease with which private investigators can access highly personal and sensitive information stored in secure government databases has been exposed by a report that will intensify calls to regulate the industry.

An investigation by Channel 4's Dispatches programme reveals how a London firm of private detectives sold personal data on individuals, including details of bank accounts, benefit claims and even a national insurance number.

Undercover reporters also recorded Stephen Anderson, director of private investigators Crown Intelligence, disclosing medical details including the name of one of the volunteers' doctors, recent appointments with a GP and, in one instance, confirmation of a medical condition. On several occasions, the investigator provided information for payment that appears to be covered by the Data Protection Act, which makes it an offence to "obtain or disclose data without permission or procure the disclosure to another person".

Private investigators are selling access to financial and criminal records

How private investigators get access to personal data - video