Hans Allnutt, David Bear, and Clare Hughes-Williams survey the increasing exposure of insurers in a burgeoning area for insurers that has seen a recent explosive twist that they may not have taken into account…
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Audit Scotland’s new report on managing Information and Communication Technology contracts provides a useful insight into the management and future of Scottish Government ICT contracts both for those in the public sector and for those in the private sector who tender for such contracts. David Gourlay and Susan Robertson provide a summary and offer some thoughts on its impact…
Sarah Hill and Ciara Cullen clarify a complex area – the quantum that applies where software infringement is established….
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The Advocate General has released his Opinion in a case referred to the CJEU which concerned the transfer of the data of European Facebook subscribers to servers located in the United States. If his Opinion is followed by the Court, safe harbour will crumble….
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The President of the CNIL has rejected Google’s informal appeal against the formal notice requesting it to apply delisting on all of the search engine’s domain names, including google.com. Are the suggestions that the CNIL is seeking world domination justified?…
David Lowe outlines new legal requirements which apply in the UK from October 2015…
Following the UsedSoft ruling, Robin Fry asks where we are now…
The latest ICO enforcement notice, arising under the ‘right to be forgotten’, seems like a futile gesture….
The EU Commission has launched two new consultations: one on Internet speed and quality and one relating to electronic communication networks and services…
The long-running EU-US data protection ‘Umbrella agreement’ negotiations have been finalised and the agreement has been initialled….
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