Great Britain: the government will strengthen the legislation to outlaw the blacklists of undesirable workers

them. On December 2, the government announced the adoption of regulations which outlaw the compilation, the spreading and the use of these blacklists. The law will come into force at the beginning of 2010. (Ref. 091109)

Ian Kerr, director of the Consulting Association Company, who sold confidential information on 3213 workers of the construction industry (see dispatch 090283), was fined £ 5.000 for a breach of the Data Protection Act. As a matter of fact, the use of personal data, such as to be