The SCL Technology Law Futures Group is drafting a response to the Department of Transport’s Open consultation “Driverless cars: regulatory testing framework”…
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In a new judgment, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that a Member State may authorise libraries to digitise, without the consent of the rightholders, books they hold in their collection so as to make them available at electronic reading points. Subject to specified conditions, especially the payment of fair compensation to rightholders, such an authorisation may permit users to print out on paper or store on a USB stick the books digitised by the library….
The Court of Justice has given its ruling in a case concerning the interplay between defamation law and the special status given to providers of information society services under the E-commerce Directive…
A global survey has found that 85% of mobile apps fail to provide basic privacy information…
Pearse Ryan and Patrick McGovern flag up an important EU information-gathering exercise…
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Nick Rich considers one aspect of the recent controversial ruling affecting Microsoft servers in Dublin and suggests an approach to deal with it…
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The Information Commissioner’s Office is highlighting the conviction of a paralegal who left his job, taking files with personal information, and warns that this amounts to an offence…
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Darin Thompson continues his series of articles on online dispute resolution. In this second article in his series, he looks both at some conceptual matters affecting the foundation of the approach to ODR solutions and at some highly practical issues that flow from his preferred approach….
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The success of the SCL Annual Conference, a possible name change for SCL and a new SCL online group for in-house lawyers….
A newly published document on the Article 29 Working Party web site is entitled title: ‘Statement on the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union which invalidates the Data Retention Directive’….
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