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- The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is an independent authority in the UK that promotes openness of official information and protection of private information. According to its Web site, the ICO does this "by promoting good practice, ruling on eligible complaints, providing information to individuals and organisations, and taking appropriate action when the law is broken."

The ICO oversees:

The Data Protection Act
The Freedom of Information Act.
The Environmental Information Regulations.
The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations.

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Data storage compliance in the UK: Learn how to comply with regulations such as the Data Protection Act 1998. We also tell you how to enforce data retention and access policies, and prepare for e-discovery requests.
Data Protection Act compliance moves up security agenda: Companies ignoring Data Protection Act compliance will have to strengthen their security and auditing procedures after a recent spate of high-profile data breaches.
Compliance FAQ Guide: How much should storage managers invest to adhere to compliance procedures? In this podcast, analyst Jon Collins answers that question and others related to data compliance trends.
Compliance, storage environments and Humpty Dumpty: Storage environments are being adapted for compliance initiatives, but storage products are one small set of components in the bag of tools for a firm's compliance efforts.
Email archiving primer: Benefits and implementation tips: Learn about the benefits and potential pitfalls of email archiving technology, best practices for selecting an email archiving product and user implementation tips.
Data breach notification laws: Requirements and guidelines: Stewart Room explains the progress in data breach notification laws and why any updates may have little to do with the Data Protection Act.
Email archiving services: How they work and how to select a service: Email archiving services offload key chores for storage admins; but before you go that route, find out about the types of services available, costs and other factors to consider.
Disk archiving appliances market outlook: Learn about the market outlook for disk archiving appliances, alternatives to archiving appliances and how vendors are repositioning their archiving appliances.
Disk archiving appliance types: High-end systems to low-end email archiving appliances: Learn about the basic types of disk archiving appliances, from high-end systems that handle multiple content types to low-end email archiving appliances.
Archive appliances hold appeal for SMBs and IT shops with regulatory compliance requirements: Disk-based archive appliances tend to hold sway with SMBs and industries facing regulatory compliance requirements as an alternative to software and cloud storage archive options.
Legal compliance: Preparing for an e-discovery request: Does your company have a legal compliance issue? We tell you how to prepare for an e-discovery request involving physical data and electronically stored information.

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21 May 2010

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